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Prometheus Award Winners: The Illuminatus! Trilogy, a Clockwork Orange, Stranger in a Strange Land, the Dispossessed, Fahrenheit 451
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-04.
ISBN 9781155485003
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Illuminatus! Trilogy, a Clockwork Orange, Stranger in a Strange Land, the Dispossessed, Fahrenheit 451, the Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Time Enough for Love, V for Vendetta, This Perfect Day, Red Planet, Prometheus Award, Requiem, We, V for Vendetta, Serenity, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Atlas Shrugged, the Stars My Destination, Glasshouse, Anthem, Little Brother, a Deepness in the Sky, Fallen Angels, Marooned in Realtime, Voyage From Yesteryear, Night Watch, It Can't Happen Here, the Golden Globe, Learning the World, Ha'penny, the Weapon Shops of Isher, the Gladiator, Alongside Night, the Star Fraction, the System of the World, the Probability Broach, True Names, the Ungoverned, Kings of the High Frontier, the Rainbow Cadenza, Sims, Psychohistorical Crisis. Excerpt: A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange (1962) is a dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess . The title is taken from an old Cockney expression, "as queer as a clockwork orange"¹, and alludes to the prevention of the main character's exercise of his free will through the use of a classical conditioning technique. With this technique, the subject s emotional responses to violence are systematically paired with a negative stimulation in the form of nausea caused by an emetic medicine administered just before the presentation of films depicting "ultra-violent" situations. Written from the perspective of a seemingly biased and unapologetic protagonist, the novel also contains an experiment in language: Burgess creates a new speech that is the teenage slang of the not-too-distant future. The novel has been adapted for cinema in a controversial movie by Stanley Kubrick , and also by Andy Warhol ; adaptations have also been made for television, radio, and the stage. As well as inspiring a concept album , the novel and films are refe
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