44 “purges and vaporisations” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 48.

45 “somewhere in the twentieth century” – Brazil (dir. Terry Gilliam, 1985).

46 “We used a lot of the same locations” – Interview with Radford.

47 “1985” – Mathews, p. 93.

48 “a stoned, slapstick 1984” – Quoted in ibid., p. 144.

49 “To me, the heart of Brazil” – Rushdie, “An Interview with Terry Gilliam.”

50 “Quite obviously they tend to stimulate” – Orwell, “Personal Notes on Scientifiction”, Leader Magazine, July 21, 1945, CW XVII, 2705, p. 220.

51 “a super state type of hero” – “Are Comics Fascist?”, Time, October 22, 1945.

52 “people who don’t switch off the news” – Alan Moore and David Lloyd, V for Vendetta (DC, 1990), p. 5.

53 Moore’s long list of influences– Alan Moore, “Behind the Painted Smile”, Warrior #17, March 1, 1984, reprinted in ibid., p. 267.

54 “nightmarish future England” – Ibid., p. 108.

55 “it would take something” – Ibid., p. 6.

56 “the wariness” – Margaret Atwood, “What The Handmaid’s Tale Means in the Age of Trump”, New York Times, March 10, 2017.

57 “silently at odds” – Atwood, Curious Pursuits, p. 335.

58 “speculative fiction” – Ingersoll (ed.), p. 161.

59 “There is more than one kind of freedom” – Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (Vintage, 1996), p. 34.

60 “I would not include anything” – Margaret Atwood, “Haunted by The Handmaid’s Tale”, Guardian, January 21, 2012.

61 “normal intercourse” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 319.

62 “a political act” – Ibid., p. 133.

63 “a refugee from the past” – Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, p. 239.

64 “Let’s say it’s an antiprediction” – Atwood, New York Times.

65 “I understood him up to a point” – Time, November 28, 1983.

66 “one of the most disgusting books” – Christopher Norris (ed.), Inside the Myth: Orwell: Views from the Left (Lawrence and Wishart, 1984), p. 81.

67 “Normally, to speculate” – Norman Podhoretz, “If Orwell Were Alive Today”, Harper’s, January 1983.

68 “the sort of well-heeled power worshiper” – Christopher Hitchens and Norman Podhoretz, Harper’s, February 1983.

69 National Review– See Robert C. de Camara, “Homage to Orwell”, National Review, May 13, 1983; E. L. Doctorow, “On the Brink of 1984”, Playboy, February 1983.

70 Tribune published– See Tribune, January 6, 13, 20, 27, 1984.

71 “a year of hope” – Guardian, December 31, 1983.

72 “tomb-robbers” – Neil Kinnock, “Shadow of the Thought Police”, London Times, December 31, 1983.

73 “we would have been taken so far” – The Sun, January 2, 1984.

74 “ideological overkill” – Paul Johnson, Spectator.

75 “a grim warning” – Quoted in Michael Glenny, “Orwell’s 1984 Through Soviet Eyes”, Index on Censorship, vol. 13, no. 4, August 1984.

76 “a fully realistic picture” – Quoted in Labedz.

77 “anti-Soviet agitation” – Glenny.

78 “No one has ever lived in Lilliput” – Guardian, January 8, 1984.

79 “How did he know?” – Timothy Garton Ash, “Orwell for Our Time”, Observer, May 6, 2001.

80 “probably the single Western author” – Quoted in Thomas Cushman and John Rodden (eds.), George Orwell Into the Twenty-First Century (Paradigm, 2004), p. 274.

81 “He was the first person” – Glenny.

82 “When I read the story” – Milaniméka, “A Czech Winston Smith”, Index on Censorship, vol. 13, no. 1, February 1984.

83 “The struggle of man against power” – Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, trans. Michael Henry Heim (Faber & Faber, 1992), p. 3.

84 “an undifferentiated block of horrors” – Kundera, Testaments Betrayed, p. 255.

85 “In their talk of forty horrible years” – Ibid., p. 256.

86 “Amalrik is long dead” – Natan Sharansky, press conference, January 29, 1996.

87 “a ritualistic code” – Milovan Djilas, “The Disintegration of Leninist Totalitarianism”, in Irving Howe (ed.), 1984 Revisited: Totalitarianism in Our Century (Harper & Row, 1984), p. 140.

88 “it must show that power” – Franoise Thom, Newspeak: The Language of Soviet Communism, trans. Ken Connelly (Claridge Press, 1989), p. 118.

89 “His inner world consisted” – Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Granta, 2018), p. 65.

90 “She took it for granted” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 159.

91 “Our society is deeply ill” – Quoted in Gessen, p. 86.

92 “For Orwell the problem” – Labedz.

93 “The worst kind of Big Brother” – Bob Brewin, “Worldlink 2029”, Village Voice, February 1, 1983.

94 mechanical “brain” – Tribune, June 17, 1949, CW XX, 3649, p. 139.

95 “smash the old canard” – David Burnham, “The Computer, the Consumer and Privacy”, New York Times, March 4, 1984.

96 “If Big Brother could just get” – Walter Cronkite, “Orwell’s “1984” – Nearing?”, New York Times, June 5, 1983.

97 “the complaisance, the eagerness” – John Corry, “TV: 1984 Revisited”, New York Times, June 7, 1983.

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1 “The stubbornness of reality” – Quoted in Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World (Yale University Press, 1982), p. 255.

2 “Orwell feared” – Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death (Methuen, 1987), p. viii.

3 “In the Huxleyan prophecy” – Ibid., p. 160.

4 “I loved living in a world” – Andrew Smith, Totally Wired: On the Trail of the Great Dotcom Swindle (Simon & Schuster, 2012), p. 295.

5 “dilution and cheapening” – Estate of Orwell v. CBS, 00-c-5034 (ND Ill).

6 “asleep or awake” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 29.

7 “Orwell understood the difference” – Bernard Crick, “Big Brother Belittled”, Guardian, August 19, 2000.

8 “The world of Nineteen Eighty-Four ended in 1989” – Garton Ash.

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