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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Short Story - 2 B R 0 2 B



 Short Story  : 2 B R 0 B B

 Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Rating: 10/10

Year: 1962 (original ) ; 2007 (public domain edition)

Publisher: Gutenberg Project 

ISBN: ebook 21279

Pages: 15

Language : English 


This short story by Kurt dating from 1962 already imagined a possible solution to the problem of overpopulation, although less serious than today. I warn you, the subject can be triggering.


No future date is given, but, in this story where the society in which aging has been cured, and where a painter is already 200 years old, we can assume minimum around 2150...


Additionally, individuals have an indefinite lifespan and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million.


Here we come to the chilling part, or imagined necessity... Because this number is maintained thanks to a combination of infanticide and government-assisted suicide - via the dedicated service number of the Federal Bureau of Termination - the Bureau Federal Terminations. This number is 2 B R 0 2 B, to be pronounced 2 B R naught 2 B, a pun on the famous quote from Shakespeare, To be or not to be... to be or not to be... with emphasis about “not”.


For someone to be born, someone else must first die voluntarily. As a result, births are rare and deaths occur mainly by accident - or the service one makes an appointment with.


The narrative style is fluid, but, as stated, the subject can be triggering.

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