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I wouldn't say it's beyond imagination. Science-fiction authors have been predicting this for years.
by ianstallings 12y ago
I wouldn't say it's beyond imagination. Science-fiction authors have been predicting this for years.
- hga 12y agoDecades. The first pervasive surveillance state story I can remember reading, of the sort that's nominally free, we're not talking Nineteen Eighty Four, was "The Hunting Lodge", a 1954 short story by Randall Garrett (collected in the great 1968 Men and Machines, edited by Robert Silverberg).
- atmosx 12y agoI've read 'Darkness at noon'[1] at year ago or two. It's one of the books Orwell was heavily influenced by. It's about Stalin's Russia and it's amazing. Same topic, total gov control. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_at_Noon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_at_Noon
- igravious 12y agoSecond 'Darkness at Noon'. A very powerful read. By Arthur Koestler 1940. Orwell's 1984 was published in 1948, wasn't it?
- atmosx 12y agoWell yeah, wikipedia says 1949 but 6 months up or down doesn't change much.. About DaN[1]: 'In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Darkness at Noon at number eight on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.' Although the depth of thought and analysis of the 'soviet regime' was impressive, I had no idea it was that highly praised novel. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_at_noon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_at_noon
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- e3pi 12y ago"The Hunting Lodge", a 1954 short story by Randall Garrett: http://bookre.org/reader?file=230833 http://bookre.org/reader?file=230833