Book review: Peter Huber, ORWELL'S REVENGE: THE 1984 PALIMPSEST

[polaris93]

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[wombat_socho]

Also somewhat relevant - Charles Stross' "Big Brother Iron", which posits a "contemporary" Brezhnevite IngSoc where the PC revolution has never come and the mainframes that monitor the telescreens (along with the Party that controls them) have become hopelessly corrupted. But there's a Young Turk faction of the Inner Party working to change things...

[polaris93]

I read that! A really great story. Stross is one of my favorite authors because he knows the impact that advances in technology have on cultures and societies. Good to know there's a fellow fan of Stross out there. :-)

[wombat_socho]

I like most of his writing, but the man himself - well, I met him once before the whole Hugo kerfuffle erupted, and it was very clear to me that he was surprised and confused that somebody like me liked his work. (He's quite the Marxist.)

[polaris93]

That's too bad. Apparently he suspends disbelief in other types of societies when he writes his fiction, or doesn't think about Marxism then at all. Good thing, too -- he is one of the finest science-fiction writers on the planet. :-)