Gazing into the past

Now that I'm nearly finished with the Annotated Bibliography (all I have left is to type it up), I just have to focus on finding the four books which would be the most suitable for my reading selection. I have three of them so far, which I have selected by researching, and by linking them to the genre that they belong in. They are 1984 by George Orwell, Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry, and Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury,all of which are Dystopian novels.

As for the fourth book, I'm a little bit puzzled; although I would love to read the written version of Fight the Future, which is based on the X-files film with the same title, I'm not sure if I could make it blend in with the rest of the novels. If I would pick Science-Fiction as the main genre, then I could. But then again, after researching I couldn't find out what type of Science-Fiction Fight the Future would fit under. But I believe that it would be categorized in a diffrent Science-Fiction sub-genre then the other three books,therefore, there would be a greater diffrence between the three novels which I have already picked, and Fight the Future.

Another option that I could possibly have, is to pick another Dystopian novel; so I might have to look into that.



Addendum:

1984 is one of the most famous Dystopian novels throughout the world. It is a story that warns it's readers of the harmful potentials that totalitarianism can have. One of the influences that George Orwell picked up on prior to writing this novel, was the Spanish Civil War and World War Two. Many of the elements from 1984, were also based upon the Soviet Union. For example, the "Two Minutes Hate" was based on the demonstrations that the Soviet Union used to have of their enemies. While the physical description of Big Brother closely resembles Stalin's, and the party's arch enemy, Goldstein, resembles Leon Trotsky, mainly because they are both Jewish.

Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451, is a novel that is mainly about "book burning". This element was a symbol for anti-intellectualism, and was largely influenced by the book burning that took place during the Nazi period (in World War 2) due to the anti-sematic feelings that were shared among part of the German population.

Writing Brave New World was a turning point for Huxley; it was during this time that he synthesized his early writing style of satire, with his fascination for Science-Fiction.This allowed him to move onto writing novels with deeper meanings. A theme that's prominent in several of his novels is the interest of individuals and the society. Such a theme was present in Brave New World, which is a story that is mainly about a fictional futuristic world where individuality and free will does not exist, because they have been sacrificed in order to create social stability within the society. In this novel, the totalitarian goverment controls the society with the use of Science and Technology. Huxley skillfully argues that certain progresses in science, such as the development of technology are very likely to reduce individuality.

P.D James is a British novelist that released two very succesful books; Innocent Blood, and The Children of men. Throughout the book, The Children of Men she presents the shocking idea of what it would be like if the population would turn inexplicably infertile, which would result in chaos in it's purest form. Which is due to the fact that there would be no reason left for anyone to live, if all the humans would perish in a matter of years.