Which novel is set in the seventh century AF (After Ford) - 632 years after the birth of the inventor of the model T?
World State in Brave New World World State in Brave New World The World State is the primary setting of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel "Brave New World". In the novel, the World State is a unified government which administers the entire planet, with a few isolated exceptions. The motto of the World State is "Community, Identity, Stability". The citizens of the World State use a calendar which takes the year 1908 AD ("0 AF" – "After Ford") as its epoch, as this was the first year in which the Model T automobile was produced by the Ford Motor Company. According to the novel, the "Nine Years'
The First Century after Beatrice The First Century after Beatrice The First Century after Beatrice () is a 1992 novel by the French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf. The story is set in a near future, where a pharmacological company markets, in the guise of a traditional folk remedy, a drug by which parents can choose to only have sons. The story is told from the first-person point of view of an entomologist. As the disastrous consequences of the skewed male/female birth ratio resulting from the drug multiply, he transitions from pondering and documenting them to organizing a body of scientists who attempt to reckon with the