Posted by Tim Cratchit on February 12, 2002 at 00:32:46:

In Reply to: 1984 : a political satire posted by sum1in need on February 09, 2002 at 19:28:57:

1984 is not a political satire. Please tell your prof that he is a cretin.

(Animal Farm is a satire.)

1984 is an distopia. When it was written, in 1948, that desribed future seemed all too likely to happen.