“Which Dystopian Novel Got It Right: Orwell’s ‘1984’ or Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’?”: The New York Times Book Review asks an inappropriate question.

What are the differences between the ways that, and the purposes for which, fiction and nonfiction are written? If you knew the answer to that question, then you would not ask “Which dystopian novel got it right?”

Orwell and Huxley were not trying to predict the future and get it right. If they had wanted to do that, they would have written essays, not novels.

1. “Which Dystopian Novel Got It Right: Orwell’s ‘1984’ or Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’?” The New York Times Book Review. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/books/review/which-dystopian-novel-got-it-right-orwells-1984-or-huxleys-brave-new-world.html?_r=0