I followed up #GeorgeOrwell's 1984 with #sandranewman's companion piece which retells the story of the original from the perspective of Julia. It's very neat to see more of this world and match events from a different pair of eyes. Still has that depressing overtone, still incredibly interesting and it adds a lot to the mix to help flesh out some of the world that the original didn't explore. #FinishedReading#reading#readingforpleasure#books#bookstodon#dystopian
@ronanmcd we need more of that over here; the old maids biking to Holy Communion through the mists of the autumn mornings would be delighted with this facility. #cycling#GeorgeOrwell
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” — George Orwell, 1984 #Quote#Prediction
Worldcoin and Metaverse, here they come
Mind reading, or thought-robbing will be fine.
Hop in fellows, as we are heading to 1984 Land, the wonderful, one and only place you will own nothing and the only place you can ever be happy! Now let's praise our great leaders! Long live Meta! Long live Google!
The U.K. copyright for George Orwell's work expired in 2021. Now, "Beasts of England," by Adam Biles (a sequel to "Animal Farm") and "Julia" by Sandra Newman (a retelling of "1984" from the perspective of Julia) have been published. For the BBC, author Dorian Lynskey looks at these and some of the other ways Orwell's works are being built upon, and why there hasn't been a total free-for-all.
A project by David Shrigley “who has produced a limited run of 1,250 copies of #GeorgeOrwell's dystopian novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' made entirely from the pulped remains of unwanted copies of 'The Da Vinci Code'.”
When George Orwell started dobbing in "communists" and "fellowtravellers" to the UK authorities later in life, it wasn't because he'd stopped supporting the left. He hadn't even given up on the ideals of communism. Ideals that had led him to join the UK communist party, and then travel to Spain to defend the socialist revolution from Franco's fascists, fighting with the POUM, shoulder to shoulder with Trotskyists and anarchists.
@acousticmirror Old Major from #AnimalFarm by #GeorgeOrwell should represent #Stalin and the ambiguous view Orwell had. When the humans attacked, Old Major kept his head up with flying bullets, just like Stalin stayed in #Moscow.
Nederland steunt in Europa een Frans voorstel om het afluisteren van journalisten zo makkelijk mogelijk te houden. Het plan houdt uitzonderingsregels in stand waarmee overheden zogenaamde spyware in kunnen zetten zonder onafhankelijke toetsing.