Trivia / We

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: Like Brave New World, it correctly guessed a future medical discovery. In this case that damaging a part of the human brain can destroy that person's emotions. Though it involves an icepick instead of X-Rays.
• Banned in China: Was banned in the Soviet Union...until 1988.
• Follow the Leader: Set the standard for dystopian literature in the twentieth century and beyond, with Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World drawing on it for inspiration.
• Science Marches On: Later research describes actual people who actually lost the ability or innately cannot fantasize. In fact, aphantasiacs don't behave as creepy zombie robots.

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