Via @parabasis an old Isaac Asimov critique of Orwell's 1984: http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm …
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Orwell's vision of a world dominated by totalitarian super-states didn't happen but it was plausible. Asimov wrote about a Galactic Empire.
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Asimov's Foundation series has its virtues but the idea of a Galactic Empire is absurd, given distances between stars.
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He wasn't forseeing the future. He was writing a satire of Russia!
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