Ayn Rand's novel, Anthem, is a story set in a world where communism is the way of life. The main character in this book is a very enthusiastic boy named Equality 7-2521. Equality 7-2521 is the type of guy who loves to read every book you put in his hands. Equality 7-2521 is a brilliant boy. In Equality 7-2521's society boys and girls are both given jobs at age fifteen. The jobs are given to them by a select group called the Council of Vocations. The Council of Vocations gave Equality 7-2521 the job as a street sweeper. The street sweeper job is not a big one; due to the fact all they do is clean the streets day and night. Many people that are given the jobs of a street sweeper are not the brightest; Equality 7-2521 is the opposite. He is one of the smartest in his class and the Council of Vocations knows that. Equality 7-2521 wanted to be elected to The Home of the Scholars, who develop technology to improve the society. One of the inventions developed by the Home of the Scholars was the candle. Equality 7-2521 loved the candle and was so fascinated with it. When he was younger he discovered a tunnel where he could go and get away from everyone. In this tunnel he invented one of the town's greatest inventions, the light bulb. During the story, Equality 7-2521 goes to a mating house, where people pair you up with your mate. In Equality 7-2521's world the world "I" is never used, because in Communism there is no "I", just "we" Buy this book to find out what happens to Equality 7-2521.

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What happens when the United Kingdom of 2015 is sent back to 1940, just before the Battle of Britain?  For the British, it's a second chance for power...if the Nazis don't manage to stop them first.

“Why? We’re not at war with Germany.”

“With all due respect, sir, Nazi Germany is at war with us.”

After a night of terror, Britain wakes up to discover that the entire nation has been thrown back in time, to 1940…and the Germans are at the door. As they struggle to react to the new environment, it occurs to some people that there is an opportunity here – to reverse the verdict of history and create a world where Britain is the only superpower.

Forced into a war they won once before, the British struggle to understand what has happened, as the ripples of the sudden change in the future spread across the world. Under threat from Hitler, Mussolini, Japan…and a surprise member of the Axis of Evil, can Britain survive long enough to reshape the world?

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H. G. Wells's classic novel The Time Machine, first published in 1895, is one part fairy tale, one part love story, one part science fiction, and one part utopia. Readers can enjoy the story on multiple levels and take away something unique to themselves upon finishing the novel. With every turn of the page, we become as little children being read a good night story; for in effect, we are being read to rather than reading ourselves. The story is told through an unnamed narrator, a young member of an informal group of men who meet occasionally at the Time Traveler's house for dinner, drinks, cigars, and conversation. It is no accident that the narrator who tells us the story is the least skeptical, indeed the most credulous of the group, in response to the Time Traveler's claim to have built a Time Machine. We need an optimistic and trusting narrator, for he represents the audacity of hope, the possibility of human endeavor leading to improvement and progress, at a time when the specter of social Darwinism and scientific fatalism had fallen over the western world. The narrator is the one who exclaims, in response to the prospect of traveling into the future, "To discover a society erected on a strictly communistic basis." As humorous and naive as such a statement sounds to us today, communism was a synonym for utopia in the late nineteenth century. And so we are supposed to identify with the narrator, to suspend our disbelief in the absurd hypothesis of time as the fourth dimension and the fantastical invention of a time machine. During the time when we submit to the power of the story and allow ourselves to be swept away by the fantasy, time machine does exist and time travel is possible.

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