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Steve Shahbazian

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Steve Shahbazian has won no awards, no competitions and isn't critically acclaimed. Some of his best friends have gone so far as to describe his work as “okay in places” and his books have been in huge demand, mostly due to the large number of wonky tables needing propping up...

Okay, okay, I wrote that. I'm sure you're all sick of writers bigging up their work, telling you how many awards they won and blah, blah, blah... seriously, how many bestsellers are there out there!?! For me, all that matters is writing original stories that you, dear reader, enjoy. For me, the reader is everything.

If you like a mixture of literary fiction, science fiction and political dystopian fiction with the occasional dark and disturbing twist, check out my wri ...more

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Average rating: 3.56 · 16 ratings · 6 reviews · 17 distinct works

	A Century of Dystopia volume 1 - Introduction liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Endgame 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green and Pleasant Land by Steve Shahbazian (Goodreads Author), Gregory Claeys (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Century of Dystopia volume 7 – "The Handmaid’s Tale" by Margaret Atwood liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Century of Dystopia volume 2 - "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Futility liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sometimes, the internet turns up things you never expected to find. As a long-time fan of Hancock’s Half Hour, I’d loved the episode “The Missing Page” since childhood. I could remember Tony Hancock and Sid James getting “Lady Don’t Fall Backwards” out of the library and becoming fixated on trying to work out who the […]

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“If you’re drowning and a murderer throws you a line, you can’t wait for someone more agreeable to come along.”
― Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

tags: cynical, cynicism, life, moral-dilemma, morality

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“Life is rarely a choice between good and bad, but bad and worse.”
― Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

tags: choice, cynical, cynicism, life, morality

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“The media’s so central to our lives that we believe what we see onscreen is real. In fact, it’s more real than reality: emotions are heightened, drama sharpened, issues simplified.”
― Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

tags: deception, disinformation, fake-news, mass-media, propaganda, reality

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“He looked back as they shepherded the children indoors, thinking of the cities with their walls, gatehouses, razor wire, shutters, barriers, alarms, security cameras and bulletproof screens; it was the architecture of siege, not harmony. Division was engraved in the landscape and fear expressed in physical form.”
― Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

tags: conflict, division, society

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“By thinking in the prescribed language, we conform without realising.”
― Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

tags: language, politics, propaganda

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“If you load oppositional words with negative connotations, then critical thought is stifled. If you load supportive words with positive connotations, then people can’t avoid thinking in the prescribed way.”
― Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

tags: language, politics, propaganda, thought

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“People want the Government to do their thinking for them. They happily regurgitate their catchphrases and slogans, thinking they’ve come up with the ideas themselves. It’s a well-known phenomenon: it’s called passive cognition.”
― Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

tags: language, politics, propaganda, thought

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