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[[Kurt Vonnegut]] said that in writing ''[[Player Piano (novel)|Player Piano]]'' (1952), he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of ''Brave New World'', whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's ''We''".<ref>[[Playboy]] [http://www.playboy.com/magazine/interview_archive/kurt-vonnegut/kurt-vonnegut.html interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210155908/http://www.playboy.com/magazine/interview_archive/kurt-vonnegut/kurt-vonnegut.html |date=10 February 2009 }}, July 1973.</ref>
In 1982, [[Polish people|Polish]] author Antoni Smuszkiewicz, in his analysis of Polish science-fiction ''Zaczarowana gra'' ("The Magic Game"), presented accusations of [[plagiarism]] against Huxley. Smuszkiewicz showed similarities between ''Brave New World'' and two science fiction novels written earlier by Polish author [[Mieczysław Smolarski]], namely ''Miasto światłości'' ("The City of Light", 1924) and ''Podróż poślubna pana Hamiltona'' ("Mr Hamilton's Honeymoon Trip", 1928).<ref>{{cite book|title=Zaczarowana gra: zarys dziejów polskiej fantastyki naukowej|last=Smuszkiewicz|first=Antoni|publisher=Wydawn. Poznanskie|year=1982|location=[[Poznań]]|language=Polish|oclc=251929765}}{{Page needed|date=September 2010}}</ref> Smuszkiewicz wrote in his open letter to Huxley: "This work of a great author, both in the general depiction of the world as well as countless details, is so similar to two of my novels that in my opinion there is no possibility of accidental analogy."<ref>"Nowiny Literackie" 1948 No. 4, p 7</ref>
Kate Lohnes, writing for ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'', notes the similarities between ''Brave New World'', ''The Magic Game'' and other novels of the era could be seen as "common fears surrounding the rapid advancement of technology and of the shared feelings of many tech-skeptics during the early 20th century".<ref>{{Britannica|78059|Brave New World|Kate Lohnes}}</ref> Other dystopian novels followed Huxley's work, including Orwell's own, [[Nineteen Eighty-Four]] (1949).
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