Dystopia Imagined: “Brave New World” and “Nineteen Eighty-four”

Aldous Huxley and George Orwell wrote two of the greatest books of the twentieth century to take up the theme of a dystopian future. They were different in many respects and it has been sport for commentators to assess how well each of them prognosticated. Both books are impressive works of imagination; certainly, the authors primarily wrote the books not as science fiction or…