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  • (Tears) Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

    From James Nicoll@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jan 4 14:12:21 2026
    Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

    True love blooms in authoritarian Airstrip One.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/when-spring-rejoices
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  • From Cryptoengineer@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jan 4 12:37:37 2026
    On 1/4/2026 9:12 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

    True love blooms in authoritarian Airstrip One.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/when-spring-rejoices

    You've got the same edition that was assigned in English class at
    my boarding school - about 7th grade level. I read it then.

    Its interesting to compare it to Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1921 novel "We",
    from which it draws a lot of plot elements.

    "We" also seems to be the inspiration for Ayn Rand's "Anthem".

    Wikipedia lists 8 books as derivative, some of which appear to
    be stretch.

    pt

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  • From James Nicoll@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jan 4 17:58:17 2026
    In article <10je8h1$26698$1@dont-email.me>,
    Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 1/4/2026 9:12 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

    True love blooms in authoritarian Airstrip One.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/when-spring-rejoices

    You've got the same edition that was assigned in English class at
    my boarding school - about 7th grade level. I read it then.

    Its interesting to compare it to Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1921 novel "We",
    from which it draws a lot of plot elements.

    As I recall, Orwell reviewed We.
    --
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    My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/
    My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/
    My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll

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  • From Ignatios Souvatzis@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jan 4 18:32:14 2026
    James Nicoll wrote:
    Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

    True love blooms in authoritarian Airstrip One.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/when-spring-rejoices

    Your remark questioning whether anything reported outside of England
    actually exists is interesting. Never occured to us (we read 1984 in
    school some 45 years ago).

    -is

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  • From Robert Woodward@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jan 4 21:49:00 2026
    In article <slrn10llche.1s8.u502sou@eva.bnhb484.de>,
    Ignatios Souvatzis <u502sou@bnhb484.de> wrote:

    James Nicoll wrote:
    Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

    True love blooms in authoritarian Airstrip One.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/when-spring-rejoices

    Your remark questioning whether anything reported outside of England
    actually exists is interesting. Never occured to us (we read 1984 in
    school some 45 years ago).


    My speculation (a co-worker and I discussed this several decades ago) is
    that there was but one government, it ruled the entire world and there
    was no war. My co-worker suggested that while there was but one
    government, perhaps armies were still fighting.

    --
    "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ?-----------------------------------------------------
    Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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