Do we learn more from utopian or dystopian science fiction?
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Both 1984 and Brave New World are presented as utopian to the reader at first, but of course both are ultimately dystopian.
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In what sense was 1984 presented as utopian? I can sort of buy the argument for BNW – at least, it's intentionally ambiguous – but I don't think anyone in Orwell's audience would interpret it as a desired end state.