![]() She makes hundreds of friends every day online and they all fulfill a different role. Madeleine is 17 and she’s very happy with her virtual life. Paper no longer exists either, as there are no trees left to cut down anymore. All trees and grass now are synthetic – designed to be green all year around and never drop leaves. There are a few real ones left in the world but most of the current generation has never seen one. Everything, from dates to ordering coffee is done online. You can obtain anything you like without leaving your home and even do things like go for a stroll along the beach using simulation screens and treadmills. ![]() ![]() It’s free for every child, which is a huge bonus to parents as their children are guaranteed a quality education, all from the privacy of their own homes. After the escalation of school shootings and violence, and bombings by an extremist group, software was developed so that children could study in the comfort of their own home, exposed to none of the violence and dangers posed by the outside world. Everything can be done at home online, including now the one thing that almost everyone had to leave their home for daily: school and/or university. ![]() ![]() It’s the year 2060 and technology has moved forward so much that most people don’t need to or want to leave their houses. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Set in an alternate version of the Old West in which America’s sexual morality has shifted to prioritize fertility rather than chastity, Outlawed tells the tale of a group of hardscrabble gender non-conforming outlaws and their standoff at the legendary Hole-in-the-Wall. It’s an absolute romp and contains basically everything I want in a book: witchy nuns, heists, a marriage of convenience, and a midwife trying to build a bomb out of horse dung. ![]() ![]() Here to provide some is the scrappy new feminist Western novel Outlawed by Vox gender reporter Anna North, which has been announced as a Reese’s Book Club pick. Less than two weeks into its run, 2021 is already a year that could use a little joy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2018, a South Korean modern-day adaptation called Tempted also aired, starring Joy (from one of the country's biggest musical acts, Red Velvet) and Woo Do-hwan. In the same year, a Korean movie adaptation, Untold Scandal, transferred the plot, remarkably faithfully, to 18th century Korea. In 2003, another modern-dress (actually late 1950s/early 1960s) adaptation was filmed as a miniseries for French TV, starring Catherine Deneuve, Leelee Sobieski, Nastassja Kinski and Rupert Everett. It was updated in 1999 to a modern high school as Cruel Intentions. Another film adaptation, Valmont, starring Colin Firth, Annette Bening, and Meg Tilly, came out the very next year. The most well known adaptation (which is also based on the 1985 play) is without much doubt the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Swoosie Kurtz and Keanu Reeves. It was adapted as an English language stage play by Christopher Hampton in 1985 with its French title. The story follows wealthy aristocrats engaged in a malicious bet involving sexual conquests, revenge, manipulation, seduction, and love in the sophisticated, and decadent atmosphere of 18th century pre-Revolutionary French high society. Les Liaisons dangereuses ( Dangerous Liaisons) is a seminal Epistolary Novel written by French author Pierre Choderlos de Laclos in 1782. ![]() |