Foreword, Churchill, Orwell, old hat and all that

[Dave Monroe]

Doubleplusgood.  Thanks!  See, we can do this to some
extent even without complete universal access ...

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> 
> I see the difference between the novels regarding
> the temporal direction. "1984" is clearly dystopian
> SF while "GR" tries to show the "roots" of the
> post-WWII world order under the nuclear threat. In
> both novels there's no political "good side" --
> which is interesting because I bet that the
> (Western) Allies of WW II saw themselves as the
> "good guys" (and of course I tend to do that too)
> and not just as the other side of the same coin.
> 
> I too believe that "1984" is very relevant today,
> especially because of contemporary technical
> possibilities which make Orwell's ficticious future
> more likely than ever before. Maybe Pynchon wrote
> the new foreword to "1984" because he wanted to
> emphasize this relevance for the digital era.

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