By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) George Orwell‘s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) is perhaps the most famous dystopian novel in the world, with the adjective ‘Orwellian’ being listed in the Oxford English Dictionary and the phrases ‘Big Brother’, ‘thoughtcrime‘, and ‘newspeak’ being part of the language. But Orwell’s classic novel didn’t arise in isolation, and there were a number … Continue reading The Best Dystopian Novels Written Before Orwell’s 1984