- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My teaser:
It was not enough for Huxley to predict cloning, artificial wombs, recreational drugs and the social changes following on those innovations. Nor did his inventive style and daring characterization count for much. He was supposed to say something uplifting about science and to provide the emotional payoffs that come with adventure, mystery and romance. Otherwise, his novel might be literature, but it was not really sf.
– The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction.
A reviewer apparently said something to this effect in an issue of Amazing Stories about Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Brave New World was published in 1932.
I was – am still! – quite amazed.
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Story Treasury 
Great Teaser, enjoy the rest of the book!
Bookgirl @ My Book Addiction
Thanks Bookgirl!
An interesting teaser!
My TT, http://obsessionwithbooks.blogspot.com
Have a nice week.
I thought so! Thanks Sharon
What a great teaser – and I love the old cover!
Here’s my Teaser from The Map of Time! ~ Wendi
Yeah, me, too, especially the part where it says 35 cents. I only wish it was that cheap today.
I read this in high school, pretty amazing the things written that have come to pass. My quadruple teaser is up at Calico Contemplations.
that’s good! Yeah, most of the stuff it talks were impossible when it was first published.
hi,
what a great teaser!
have a great day!
Kyanara from Laced Little Muffin’s Reading Corner
thanks Kayanara!
Interesting teaser! My teaser comes from a mystery set in Africa.
Thanks Beth! That sounds interesting.
I get an eerie feeling when I think of reading this one—a long, long time ago, and how prescient the words were in this book.
Maybe I should reread it to see just how much of it has really come true….
Here’s MY TT POST
I should, too. Thanks Laurel!
Wow, I haven’t read this in a really long time. Great teaser!
Me, either! Thanks.
Nice teaser! enjoy your read.
http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2011/07/teaser-tuesday_19.html
Thanks Mary!
Great teaser!! Very interesting.
Here is mine: http://alaskanbookcafe.blogspot.com/
Thanks Cristina
Wow. That just shows you how much things have changed. I wonder, was Huxley ever credited with SF while still alive? And, did he even care?
Here is my teaser: http://italiatina.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/teaser-tuesday-great-indian-dishes/
I know! I am thinking of expanding it into a real blogpost.
Maybe not, but he should have been. At least by the SF community.
Wow! I’m amazed, too!
You and me both!
Awesome teaser, I haven’t read this book, but I do remember some of my classmates reading it when I was in school. Sounds intriguing!
Thanks for stopping by 🙂
I don’t remember anyone else reading it! LOL Thanks Stacey!
Awesome choice for a teaser!
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Btw, in the Fever series, I think they acquire the prophecy in the third book, Faefever.
sinn @ sinnful books
Thanks Sinn! Explains why I didn’t know about it – I only read the first two
He predicted all that in 1932? Wow.
Yeah, amazing isn’t it? And someone still didn’t consider it science fiction!
oh, this is one on my shelf. maybe it should be moved up the cue =D
Maybe you should! Thanks Lissa