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Dystopian Novels
It has been 70 years since Orwell wrote 1984. It may as well have been an essay on 2019
The dystopian classic has thought-crime, telescreens and the rewriting of news and history. We have surveillance, reality TV and fake news.
Stephen Groening, The Conversation
· Jun 19, 2019 · 08:30 am
Orwell vs Huxley vs Zamyatin: Who would win a dystopian fiction contest?
Revisiting three ground-breaking novels in the genre. Which one’s closest to our world today?
Rajat Chaudhuri
· Jun 25, 2017 · 05:30 am
