What Not
A Prophetic Comedy
$36.67
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
22 November 2022
Summary
An early novel by Rose Macaulay about a government program of compulsory selective breeding in a dystopian future England.
In a near-future England, a new government entity—the Ministry of Brains—attempts to stave off idiocracy through a program of compulsory selective breeding. Kitty Grammont, who shares author Rose Macaulay’s own ambivalent attitude, gets involved in the Ministry’s propaganda efforts, which the novel details with an entertaining thoroughness. (The alphabetical caste…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262544306 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026254430X |
| Author: | Rose MacAulay, Matthew de Abaitua |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 22 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 200mm |
| Series: | MIT Press / Radium Age |
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Rose MacAulay
Rose Macaulay
Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was an English writer who worked in the British Propaganda Department during the First World War and later became a civil servant in the War Office. Several of her satirical novels, including Potterism (1920), Dangerous Ages (1921), and Told by an Idiot (1923), were bestsellers. A journalist, poet, and essayist, and the author of biographies and travelogues, Macaulay is best remembered today for her autobiographical final novel, The Towers of Trebizond (1956).
Matthew De Abaitua
Matthew De Abaitua is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Essex. His debut science-fiction novel The Red Men was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and adapted into a short film, Dr. Easy. His science fiction novels IF THEN and The Destructives complete the loose trilogy. His book Self & I: A Memoir of Literary Ambition was shortlisted for the New Angle Prize for Literature.
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