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At the center of the plot is the Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company, which plans to reposition the globe so that the Earth's climate will be universally benign, like everlasting spring ("Polar bears will soon have to use artificial ice"). In Astor's view, "this period--A.D. 2000--is by...
Other pieces in the book predicted that conception would take place in laboratories and gestation in artificial wombs, that the gender of babies would be determined in advance, that homosexuality would be universally accepted. Today, two years before Millenny's birth, it all sounds remarkably familiar.
This device sounds more artificial and self-conscious than it appears on Irving's pages. His characters become writers because all of them have been wounded in one way or another by an event so painful it can be thought of only in fictional form.
The Crafoord prize, named after the inventor of the artificial kidney, is awarded by the same academy that awards the Nobel prizes.
Being a college student often comes with a somewhat artificial attitude of prolonged adolescence. Especially for those of us who are financially supported by our parents, it is easy to adopt an adolescent mentality that denies some basic truths regarding capability and responsibility. Being aided by our parents does not...