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  1. The condition of an expanding and technologically progressive system of mass-production is universal craving. Advertising is the organized effort to extend and intensify craving...
    -- Aldous Huxley (The Perennial Philosophy)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Advertising #Capitalism #Craving

    #Photography #Panorama #WhiteRimTrail #Canyonlands #Utah

  2. The condition of an expanding and technologically progressive system of mass-production is universal craving. Advertising is the organized effort to extend and intensify craving...
    -- Aldous Huxley (The Perennial Philosophy)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Advertising #Capitalism #Craving

    #Photography #Panorama #WhiteRimTrail #Canyonlands #Utah

  3. Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLIX (Aldous Huxley, Joyce Thompson, John Collier, and an anthology of stories from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)

    Which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed?

    1. The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 8th Series, ed. Anthony Boucher (1959)

    • Ed Emshwiller’s cover for the 1963 edition

    From the back cover: No summary blurb.

    Contents: C. S. Lewis’ “Ministering Angels” (1955), Poul Anderson’s “Backwardness” (1958), Kit Reed’s “The Wait” (1958), Isaac Asimov’s “The Up-to-Date Sorcerer” (1958), Fritz Leiber’s “A Deskful of Girls” (1958), Damon Knight’s “Eripmav” (1958), Brian W. Aldiss’ “Poor Little Warrior!’ (1958), Shirley Jackson’s “The Omen” (1958), Jules Verne’s “Gilt Braltar” (1887), Avram Davidson’s “The Grantha Sighting” (1958), C. M. Kornbluth’s “Theory of Rocketry” (1958), John Shepley’s “Gorilla Suit” (1958), Zenna Henderson’s “Captivity” (1958), and Alfred Bester’s “The Men Who Murdered Mohammed” (1958)

    Initial Thoughts: I love anthologies. I need to finally tackle a Zenna Henderson story!

    2. Aldous Huxley’s Island (1962)

    • Emanuel Schongut’s cover for the 1972 edition

    From the back cover: Contains no clear blurb about the book. I’ve quoted the blurb from SF Encyclopedia: “Island (1962) presents a utopian alternative to the previous books, though without much energy. Pala and Rendang – the primary Islands in question – are set safely in the Indonesian Archipelago, and Pala in particular has long enjoyed a mildly euphoric existence, sustained spiritually by religious practices derived from Tantric Buddhism, and physically by moksha, a sort of benign soma, whose psychedelic effects – as shared by the island’s inhabitants in unison – smooth the rough edges of the world. But the book itself is powerless to convince.”

    Initial Thoughts: I’ve read, and enjoyed, Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) and the bizarre Ape and Essence (1948) (which I never managed to review). When I saw Islands (1962) in the bargain bin at my local used book store foe $1, I couldn’t resist.

    3. Joyce Thompson’s Conscience Place (1984)

    • Jackie Morris’ cover for the 1986 edition

    From the back cover: “The People of the Place are the victims of progress, although they are unaware of their physical deformities, and their existence, in a community somewhere in America, is a closed guarded secret from a guilty world.

    For the People are the mutant offspring of nuclear plant workers. Loved and cherished by the Fathers, they are allowed to live out their brief lives in dignity and harmony and in something approaching joy. Until their miniature civilization is threatened by the very ones who nurture them.

    In the ensuring struggle to survive, the People learned the bitter truth of who they are and the lessons of their history.”

    Initial Thoughts: Not sure where I learned of this one. SF Encyclopedia, in its limited fashion, aims a kind description its way.

    4. John Collier’s Tom’s A-Cold (1933)

    • Uncredited (“K” initial) cover for the 1st edition

    From the inside flap: Unfortunately, copies with dust jackets are FAR too expensive for me to purchase. Here’s the blurb from SF Encyclopedia: “Radically dissimilar to his most familiar work is Tom’s A-Cold (1933; vt Full Circle 1933), a remarkably effective Scientific Romance set in a 1990s Ruined Earth, long after an unexplained Disaster has decimated England’s (and presumably the world’s) population and thrust mankind back into rural barbarism, a condition out of which the eldest survivors, who remember civilization, are trying to educate the young third generation. The simple plot plays no tricks on the reader: the young protagonist, a born leader, rises through raids and conflict to the chieftainship, undergoes a tragedy, and reconciles himself at the novel’s close to the burdens of a government which will improve the lot of his people. Throughout the novel, very movingly, Collier renders the reborn, circumambient natural world with a hallucinatory visual intensity found nowhere else in his work. Along with Alun Llewellyn’s The Strange Invaders (1934), Tom’s A-Cold can be seen, in its atmosphere of almost loving conviction, as a genuine successor to Richard Jefferies’s After London (1885).”

    Initial Thoughts: I encountered a few mentions of this one in Andrew Hammond’s monograph Cold War Stories: British Dystopian Fiction, 1945-1990 (2018). Clute’s blurb above makes it out to be a real winner. Can’t wait to read this one.

    For book reviews consult the INDEX

    For cover art posts consult the INDEX

    For TV and film reviews consult the INDEX

    #1930s #1960s #1980s #AldousHuxley #avantGarde #bookReviews #JohnCollier #JoyceThompson #sciFi #scienceFiction
  4. Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLIX (Aldous Huxley, Joyce Thompson, John Collier, and an anthology of stories from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)

    Which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed?

    1. The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 8th Series, ed. Anthony Boucher (1959)

    • Ed Emshwiller’s cover for the 1963 edition

    From the back cover: No summary blurb.

    Contents: C. S. Lewis’ “Ministering Angels” (1955), Poul Anderson’s “Backwardness” (1958), Kit Reed’s “The Wait” (1958), Isaac Asimov’s “The Up-to-Date Sorcerer” (1958), Fritz Leiber’s “A Deskful of Girls” (1958), Damon Knight’s “Eripmav” (1958), Brian W. Aldiss’ “Poor Little Warrior!’ (1958), Shirley Jackson’s “The Omen” (1958), Jules Verne’s “Gilt Braltar” (1887), Avram Davidson’s “The Grantha Sighting” (1958), C. M. Kornbluth’s “Theory of Rocketry” (1958), John Shepley’s “Gorilla Suit” (1958), Zenna Henderson’s “Captivity” (1958), and Alfred Bester’s “The Men Who Murdered Mohammed” (1958)

    Initial Thoughts: I love anthologies. I need to finally tackle a Zenna Henderson story!

    2. Aldous Huxley’s Island (1962)

    • Emanuel Schongut’s cover for the 1972 edition

    From the back cover: Contains no clear blurb about the book. I’ve quoted the blurb from SF Encyclopedia: “Island (1962) presents a utopian alternative to the previous books, though without much energy. Pala and Rendang – the primary Islands in question – are set safely in the Indonesian Archipelago, and Pala in particular has long enjoyed a mildly euphoric existence, sustained spiritually by religious practices derived from Tantric Buddhism, and physically by moksha, a sort of benign soma, whose psychedelic effects – as shared by the island’s inhabitants in unison – smooth the rough edges of the world. But the book itself is powerless to convince.”

    Initial Thoughts: I’ve read, and enjoyed, Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) and the bizarre Ape and Essence (1948) (which I never managed to review). When I saw Islands (1962) in the bargain bin at my local used book store foe $1, I couldn’t resist.

    3. Joyce Thompson’s Conscience Place (1984)

    • Jackie Morris’ cover for the 1986 edition

    From the back cover: “The People of the Place are the victims of progress, although they are unaware of their physical deformities, and their existence, in a community somewhere in America, is a closed guarded secret from a guilty world.

    For the People are the mutant offspring of nuclear plant workers. Loved and cherished by the Fathers, they are allowed to live out their brief lives in dignity and harmony and in something approaching joy. Until their miniature civilization is threatened by the very ones who nurture them.

    In the ensuring struggle to survive, the People learned the bitter truth of who they are and the lessons of their history.”

    Initial Thoughts: Not sure where I learned of this one. SF Encyclopedia, in its limited fashion, aims a kind description its way.

    4. John Collier’s Tom’s A-Cold (1933)

    • Uncredited (“K” initial) cover for the 1st edition

    From the inside flap: Unfortunately, copies with dust jackets are FAR too expensive for me to purchase. Here’s the blurb from SF Encyclopedia: “Radically dissimilar to his most familiar work is Tom’s A-Cold (1933; vt Full Circle 1933), a remarkably effective Scientific Romance set in a 1990s Ruined Earth, long after an unexplained Disaster has decimated England’s (and presumably the world’s) population and thrust mankind back into rural barbarism, a condition out of which the eldest survivors, who remember civilization, are trying to educate the young third generation. The simple plot plays no tricks on the reader: the young protagonist, a born leader, rises through raids and conflict to the chieftainship, undergoes a tragedy, and reconciles himself at the novel’s close to the burdens of a government which will improve the lot of his people. Throughout the novel, very movingly, Collier renders the reborn, circumambient natural world with a hallucinatory visual intensity found nowhere else in his work. Along with Alun Llewellyn’s The Strange Invaders (1934), Tom’s A-Cold can be seen, in its atmosphere of almost loving conviction, as a genuine successor to Richard Jefferies’s After London (1885).”

    Initial Thoughts: I encountered a few mentions of this one in Andrew Hammond’s monograph Cold War Stories: British Dystopian Fiction, 1945-1990 (2018). Clute’s blurb above makes it out to be a real winner. Can’t wait to read this one.

    For book reviews consult the INDEX

    For cover art posts consult the INDEX

    For TV and film reviews consult the INDEX

    #1930s #1960s #1980s #AldousHuxley #avantGarde #bookReviews #JohnCollier #JoyceThompson #sciFi #scienceFiction
  5. Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLIX (Aldous Huxley, Joyce Thompson, John Collier, and an anthology of stories from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)

    Which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed?

    1. The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 8th Series, ed. Anthony Boucher (1959)

    • Ed Emshwiller’s cover for the 1963 edition

    From the back cover: No summary blurb.

    Contents: C. S. Lewis’ “Ministering Angels” (1955), Poul Anderson’s “Backwardness” (1958), Kit Reed’s “The Wait” (1958), Isaac Asimov’s “The Up-to-Date Sorcerer” (1958), Fritz Leiber’s “A Deskful of Girls” (1958), Damon Knight’s “Eripmav” (1958), Brian W. Aldiss’ “Poor Little Warrior!’ (1958), Shirley Jackson’s “The Omen” (1958), Jules Verne’s “Gilt Braltar” (1887), Avram Davidson’s “The Grantha Sighting” (1958), C. M. Kornbluth’s “Theory of Rocketry” (1958), John Shepley’s “Gorilla Suit” (1958), Zenna Henderson’s “Captivity” (1958), and Alfred Bester’s “The Men Who Murdered Mohammed” (1958)

    Initial Thoughts: I love anthologies. I need to finally tackle a Zenna Henderson story!

    2. Aldous Huxley’s Island (1962)

    • Emanuel Schongut’s cover for the 1972 edition

    From the back cover: Contains no clear blurb about the book. I’ve quoted the blurb from SF Encyclopedia: “Island (1962) presents a utopian alternative to the previous books, though without much energy. Pala and Rendang – the primary Islands in question – are set safely in the Indonesian Archipelago, and Pala in particular has long enjoyed a mildly euphoric existence, sustained spiritually by religious practices derived from Tantric Buddhism, and physically by moksha, a sort of benign soma, whose psychedelic effects – as shared by the island’s inhabitants in unison – smooth the rough edges of the world. But the book itself is powerless to convince.”

    Initial Thoughts: I’ve read, and enjoyed, Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) and the bizarre Ape and Essence (1948) (which I never managed to review). When I saw Islands (1962) in the bargain bin at my local used book store foe $1, I couldn’t resist.

    3. Joyce Thompson’s Conscience Place (1984)

    • Jackie Morris’ cover for the 1986 edition

    From the back cover: “The People of the Place are the victims of progress, although they are unaware of their physical deformities, and their existence, in a community somewhere in America, is a closed guarded secret from a guilty world.

    For the People are the mutant offspring of nuclear plant workers. Loved and cherished by the Fathers, they are allowed to live out their brief lives in dignity and harmony and in something approaching joy. Until their miniature civilization is threatened by the very ones who nurture them.

    In the ensuring struggle to survive, the People learned the bitter truth of who they are and the lessons of their history.”

    Initial Thoughts: Not sure where I learned of this one. SF Encyclopedia, in its limited fashion, aims a kind description its way.

    4. John Collier’s Tom’s A-Cold (1933)

    • Uncredited (“K” initial) cover for the 1st edition

    From the inside flap: Unfortunately, copies with dust jackets are FAR too expensive for me to purchase. Here’s the blurb from SF Encyclopedia: “Radically dissimilar to his most familiar work is Tom’s A-Cold (1933; vt Full Circle 1933), a remarkably effective Scientific Romance set in a 1990s Ruined Earth, long after an unexplained Disaster has decimated England’s (and presumably the world’s) population and thrust mankind back into rural barbarism, a condition out of which the eldest survivors, who remember civilization, are trying to educate the young third generation. The simple plot plays no tricks on the reader: the young protagonist, a born leader, rises through raids and conflict to the chieftainship, undergoes a tragedy, and reconciles himself at the novel’s close to the burdens of a government which will improve the lot of his people. Throughout the novel, very movingly, Collier renders the reborn, circumambient natural world with a hallucinatory visual intensity found nowhere else in his work. Along with Alun Llewellyn’s The Strange Invaders (1934), Tom’s A-Cold can be seen, in its atmosphere of almost loving conviction, as a genuine successor to Richard Jefferies’s After London (1885).”

    Initial Thoughts: I encountered a few mentions of this one in Andrew Hammond’s monograph Cold War Stories: British Dystopian Fiction, 1945-1990 (2018). Clute’s blurb above makes it out to be a real winner. Can’t wait to read this one.

    For book reviews consult the INDEX

    For cover art posts consult the INDEX

    For TV and film reviews consult the INDEX

    #1930s #1960s #1980s #AldousHuxley #avantGarde #bookReviews #JohnCollier #JoyceThompson #sciFi #scienceFiction
  6. Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television

    #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

  7. Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television

    #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

  8. Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television

    #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

  9. Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television

    #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

  10. Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television

    #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

  11. 10 asemănări înfricoșătoare între distopia din „Minunata lume nouă” și realitatea zilelor noastre Vă invităm să citiți „Minunata lume nouă” al lui Aldous Huxley, dacă nu ați făcut-o deja 👉 c.aparatorul.md/60p3i 👈 #AbolireaFamiliei #AldousHuxley #CreditSocial #limbajinclusiv #MinunataLumeNouă #modeltotalitar #Sexualizareacopiilor
    c.aparatorul.md/60p3i

  12. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida

  13. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida

  14. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida

  15. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida

  16. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida

  17. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

  18. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

  19. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

  20. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

  21. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

  22. That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Equality

    #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

  23. That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Equality

    #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

  24. That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Equality

    #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

  25. That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Equality

    #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

  26. That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Equality

    #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

  27. *Verbot von #SozialenMedien für U16*

    (2/n)

    ...häufig selbst die Schlimmsten sind, vgl. #EpsteinFiles) 👉darf *keinesfalls* unter dem Deckmantel der #Altersverifizierung zu einer #ChatKontrolle für alle Erwachsenen führen!👈

    „Freiheiten werden nicht gegeben, sie werden genommen.“

    #AldousHuxley (1894–1963) britischer Schriftsteller
    (#SchöneNeueWelt)

    „Ich bevorzuge...

    @Handelsblatt @schlagzeilen-Handelsblatt

  28. *Verbot von #SozialenMedien für U16*

    (2/n)

    ...häufig selbst die Schlimmsten sind, vgl. #EpsteinFiles) 👉darf *keinesfalls* unter dem Deckmantel der #Altersverifizierung zu einer #ChatKontrolle für alle Erwachsenen führen!👈

    „Freiheiten werden nicht gegeben, sie werden genommen.“

    #AldousHuxley (1894–1963) britischer Schriftsteller
    (#SchöneNeueWelt)

    „Ich bevorzuge...

    @Handelsblatt @schlagzeilen-Handelsblatt

  29. *Verbot von #SozialenMedien für U16*

    (2/n)

    ...häufig selbst die Schlimmsten sind, vgl. #EpsteinFiles) 👉darf *keinesfalls* unter dem Deckmantel der #Altersverifizierung zu einer #ChatKontrolle für alle Erwachsenen führen!👈

    „Freiheiten werden nicht gegeben, sie werden genommen.“

    #AldousHuxley (1894–1963) britischer Schriftsteller
    (#SchöneNeueWelt)

    „Ich bevorzuge...

    @Handelsblatt @schlagzeilen-Handelsblatt

  30. *Verbot von #SozialenMedien für U16*

    (2/n)

    ...häufig selbst die Schlimmsten sind, vgl. #EpsteinFiles) 👉darf *keinesfalls* unter dem Deckmantel der #Altersverifizierung zu einer #ChatKontrolle für alle Erwachsenen führen!👈

    „Freiheiten werden nicht gegeben, sie werden genommen.“

    #AldousHuxley (1894–1963) britischer Schriftsteller
    (#SchöneNeueWelt)

    „Ich bevorzuge...

    @Handelsblatt @schlagzeilen-Handelsblatt

  31. *Verbot von #SozialenMedien für U16*

    (2/n)

    ...häufig selbst die Schlimmsten sind, vgl. #EpsteinFiles) 👉darf *keinesfalls* unter dem Deckmantel der #Altersverifizierung zu einer #ChatKontrolle für alle Erwachsenen führen!👈

    „Freiheiten werden nicht gegeben, sie werden genommen.“

    #AldousHuxley (1894–1963) britischer Schriftsteller
    (#SchöneNeueWelt)

    „Ich bevorzuge...

    @Handelsblatt @schlagzeilen-Handelsblatt

  32. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida

  33. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    -- Aldous Huxley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Happiness

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida