George Orwell's great novel 1984 deals with the most terrifying subject of the news today, the threat to all free men of communism or totalitarian domination in any form. In fiction Orwell creates for us a picture of what life might be should the totalitarian forces succeed with their plan to become the earth's masters. It is fiction that projects in to a kind of prophetic reporting of the future. It is our blessing that we can see it so and thus alert ourselves.

Adapted by S. Mark Smith