Huxley’s “Brave New World” is set far into the future, in 632 AF, or 2540 AD. With that said, a close look will be taken into several of Huxley’s themes within a “Brave New World” to best determine the impacts of his fictional society in regards to current cultural trends, and trends for the future. His work employs many parallels that can be drawn to society’s culture today, possibly even serving as a prediction of the future 500 years from now. They begin “The Oleander Sword” with nothing but great things ahead and a secret relationship between them.Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” relates a fictional society in which freedom is dead, morality is forgotten, and man’s future is bleak indeed. Priya, a maidservant working first for and then alongside Malini, comes into her own as a free woman and worker of ancient power.

In the first book, “The Jasmine Throne,” Princess Malini escapes exile and imprisonment to raise an army and-if all goes well-to seize the empire for herself.

Tasha Suri’s series, The Burning Kingdoms, takes place in a magnificently reimagined southern Asia where spirits walk the earth and fire has a will of its own. This season publishers have presented readers with a veritable feast for the imaginative mind. These days readers have an enormous range of stories to delight them as contemporary fantasy engages with an ever-widening pool of cultural sources that encompass the world’s collective mythologies.

As a lifelong reader of all things folklorish and fantastical, like many of my American contemporaries, I grew up on a diet of European tales and legends-a satisfying but ultimately limited fare.

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