What the novels saw coming.
A reading room for dystopian fiction and the surveillance state it kept warning us about. the government is not the only one watchinghover to declassify — essays, annotated novels, and a running record of the present.
Orwell wrote Newspeak as satire: a language engineered to make certain thoughts impossible to think. The appendix reads like documentation. Seventy-odd years on, the design spec looks less like a warning and more like a roadmap — followed, in pieces, by people who never read the book.
Read the file →It needed a battery and a signal. We supplied both, voluntarily, and called it convenience.
Bradbury imagined burning. The actual mechanism turned out to be quieter — nobody had to ban a book that nobody could find.
Not what the political left or right claims he believed this week. What he wrote down, in order, with dates.