I much prefer Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We", which Orwell at least openly ripped off. Zamyatin was "allowed" by Stalin to leave instead of going into a gulag for writing it, but it destroyed him.
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/yevgeny-zamyatin/we/gregory-zilboorg
The book is fucking horrific, and D's so cheerful most of the time, right up until that's no longer possible or necessary.
He had glass walls in his apartments. We've put them in our phones & computers!
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