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[jbor]

on 17/2/03 3:29 AM, prozak at anus.com at prozak at anus.com wrote:

> I think it's impossible to read 1984 without reading its predecessor,
> "Brave New World"

Both - Orwell particularly - owe a huge debt to Yevgeny Zamyatin's _We_.
Also of relevance & interest (utopian and anti-utopian fiction):

Jack London, _The Iron Heel_
E.M. Forster, 'The Machine Stops'
H.G. Wells, _The Sleeper Awakes_ (also _The Time Machine, _Men Like Gods_,
_A Modern Utopia_ etc)
Samuel Butler, _Erewhon_
William Morris, _News From Nowhere_
Edward Bellamy, _Looking Backward_
Thomas More, _Utopia_
Gulliver, Plato etc.

Even Ayn Rand, _Anthem_.

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