Tomorrow, June 8th, is the 77th release anniversary
"I do not believe that the kind of society I describe will necessarily arrive, but I believe (allowing, of course, for the fact that the book is a satire) that something resembling it could arrive...[it is] a show... [of the] perversions to which a centralised economy is liable and which have already been partly realisable in communism and fascism." - George Orwell, Letter to Francis A. Hanson