1984

Everything was, like, very bad. Only one man dared to defy the establishment. His name was Orwell. Orwell Jones.

What’s the deal with Big Brother? He’s not big and he’s not my brother! I had a brother and Big Brother said that he was a traitor to the state. This guy up front gets it!

There are elements of the novel—such as its portrait of the surveillance state, or its portrayal of Newspeak—that seem never to fade from relevance.

“Marvin’s Room,” “1984,” and “Seeing You” all feature dying as an imminent possibility or reality, but each handles it differently.

The author comments on his most famous book, in 1973.

The realities of science fiction.