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(e)Book – Love and friendship

  (e) Book –  Love and friendship Full title :  Love and friendship and other early works Author : Jane Austen Score : /10 Year : 1790 (original) ; 2012 (this edition) Publisher : Duke Classics   ISBN  978-1-62012-155-9  // 9781620121559  (ebook)  Pages :  Language: English Jane Austen is best known for her 6 novels, which all have been adapted into tv movies - but after having read Virginia Woolf's short fiction in chronological order, I decided to apply the same for Austen's publications, to better appreciate her growth and evolution in narrative style. So, before reading her novels which were released from 1811 to 1817, in the following order :  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,  Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, I decided to go back to her teenage years, reading Love and Friendships, and other early works.
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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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