Via @parabasis an old Isaac Asimov critique of Orwell's 1984: http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm …
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Asimov: Orwell "did not have the science fictional knack of foreseeing a plausible future." I find this critique amusing.
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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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Asimov's Galactic Empire, and its collapse in the Foundation series, was modeled overtly on Roman history, just across a larger area.
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Plausible? Of course not. But recognizable as allegory. That's no knock (by me) on Orwell's different project.
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It's great as allegory but that's not how Asimov understood what he was doing (not uncommon among writers).
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