For many, “1984” by George Orwell is one of those books. Its impact on science-fiction and pop culture is far-reaching. “Big ...
On 8 June, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four will celebrate its 71st anniversary – but there’s no denying that the iconic dystopian novel feels all the more relevant in 2020 than ever before.
Try these modern dystopian books.” John Williams ... with the feeling that we are near to or headed toward either Orwell’s horrifying police state or Huxley’s horrifying utopia-dystopia.
Orwell’s classic 1984 (published in 1949 ... almost two decades ago. In my dystopian novel The Forcing, companion to The ...
This dystopian novel takes place on an island wrestling ... Said to have inspired Orwell’s “1984,” Zamyatin wrote “We” in the early 1920s. It became the first novel banned in the Soviet ...
Since Tuesday night, dystopian novels such as Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” to George Orwell’s seminal “1984” have returned to the charts. Other returning bestsellers ...
In March 2021 our world changed and during this time of turbulence sales soared for George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1985”. A surge of people watched the film Contagion, a film about the world’s ...