>
> > Aldous Huxley is also a good suggestion - he was influenced
strongly
> > by Yevgeny Zamytatin ('We'). George Orwell, too. Although they
only
> > use 'sci-fi' loosely as a mechanism for political comment,
> the writing
> > is exceptional. Especially Orwell's - I consider him to be
> one of the
> > top maybe 10 writers of English since the 16th century.
>
> +1. :-) apart from animal farm and of course 1984, there's
> this essay i
> read (long back) on shooting an elephant in burma or
> something close to
> that (title) which was just brilliant. have to hunt it up again....
>
it's called Shooting An Elephant. Very good essay. Back in the 70s you
could get a 4-volume set of his collected essays, journalism and
letters, which I had. I was a teenager at the time and I can't even
begin to describe how important an influence on me those volumes were.
They have also been very important politically in Britain, and
particularly in England. To me his political thought is socialism at
its very best, with a particularly English flavour. Revolution with a
teapot.
Bob
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