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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 — twelve books filed as dossiers, and a running record of the present.

The Orwellian IndexUpdated weekly
67/ 100 Elevated
Surveillance
8
Censorship
5
Propaganda
7
Social control
6
01 / THE CANON

Dossiers, not book reports

12 BOOKS FILED — TAP A FILE TO DECLASSIFY IT
FILE // D-001
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell, 1949
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SCORECARD
Surveillance
10
State control
10
Propaganda
10
Censorship
9
Technological control
7
Social control
8
PRIMARY MECHANISMControl of reality itself
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FILE // D-014
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley, 1932
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SCORECARD
Surveillance
4
State control
7
Propaganda
9
Censorship
6
Technological control
10
Social control
10
PRIMARY MECHANISMConsent, manufactured through comfort
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FILE // D-027
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921
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SCORECARD
Surveillance
9
State control
10
Propaganda
8
Censorship
9
Technological control
9
Social control
10
PRIMARY MECHANISMVisibility as the only law
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02 / SURVEILLANCE NOTES

The present, annotated

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