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Kallocain

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Kallocain is a 1940 dystopian novel by Swedish novelist Karin Boye which envisions a future of drab terror. [1]

20 relations: Aldous Huxley, Bonnier Group, Brave New World, Chemical industry, Citizenship, Hans Abramson, Hugo Award, Karin Boye, Love, Meaning of life, Miniseries, Political fiction, Social science fiction, State (polity), Sweden, Television, Totalitarianism, Truth serum, Utopian and dystopian fiction, World government.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family.

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Bonnier Group

Bonnier AB (also the Bonnier Group) is a privately held Swedish media group of 175 companies operating in 15 countries.

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Brave New World

Brave New World is a dystopian novel written in 1931 by English author Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932.

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Chemical industry

The chemical industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals.

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Citizenship

Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation.

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Hans Abramson

Hans Abramson (5 May 1930 – 9 June 2012) was a Swedish film director.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Karin Boye

Karin Maria Boye (26 October 1900 – 24 April 1941) was a Swedish poet and novelist.

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Love

Love encompasses a variety of different emotional and mental states, typically strongly and positively experienced, ranging from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure.

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Meaning of life

The meaning of life, or the answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?", pertains to the significance of living or existence in general.

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Miniseries

A miniseries (or mini-series, also known as a serial in the UK) is a television program that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes.

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Political fiction

Political fiction employs narrative to comment on political events, systems and theories.

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Social science fiction

Social science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, usually (but not necessarily) soft science fiction, concerned less with technology/space opera and more with speculation about society.

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State (polity)

A state is a compulsory political organization with a centralized government that maintains a monopoly of the legitimate use of force within a certain geographical territory.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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Totalitarianism

Benito Mussolini Totalitarianism is a political concept where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to control every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.

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Truth serum

"Truth serum" is a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive drugs used in an effort to obtain information from subjects who are unable or unwilling to provide it otherwise.

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Utopian and dystopian fiction

The utopia and its opposite, the dystopia, are genres of speculative fiction that explore social and political structures.

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World government

World government or global government is the notion of a common political authority for all of humanity, yielding a global government and a single state that exercises authority over the entire Earth.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallocain

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