Orwell wrote about a world engineered to control what people could think. He wasn't the only one — Huxley, Zamyatin, Bradbury, and others got there from different angles, at different speeds, with different warnings.
This is a place to read those novels closely, and to keep a plain record of where the fiction and the present have started to line up.
An essay archive on dystopian literature, a dossier-style catalog of the books themselves, and a running, dated log of real-world surveillance, censorship, and propaganda — annotated against the fiction that predicted it.
Every claim in the surveillance log is meant to be sourced. Every score in a book dossier is an argument, not a fact — read it, disagree with it, and tell us why.
Not a partisan outlet. The premise here is that power gets scrutinized regardless of who holds it — a government, a company, a platform, doesn't matter. Some things called "Orwellian" genuinely aren't, and we'll say so.
Not a fan site, either, despite the name. The joke is in the domain. The work is in the archive.