> There is no ability to make minor changes, even. Good grief, how to totally miss the entire point. He’s trying to critique a political deconstruction as thou

> There is no ability to make minor changes, even. Good grief, how to totally miss the entire point. He’s trying to critique a political deconstruction as though it was entertainment fiction. Didn’t he realise the close parallels are kind of the point, because Orwell was writing a commentary on and illustration of those events and personalities? Introducing random variations would have completely obscured the things he was trying to say. Things Asimov didn’t even notice.