1984


1984
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
Animal Farm
Thinner
The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)
The Wasp Factory
Bright Lights, Big City
The House on Mango Street
Brave New World
Operation Blue Star: The True Story
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
The Lover
Fahrenheit 451
Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh FermorGreat Plains by Ian FrazierThe Walk West by Peter JenkinsThe Coast Of West Cork by Peter Somerville-LargeRussian Journal by Andrea Lee
Travel Published in Decade: 1980s
30 books — 6 voters
Pawn of Prophecy by David EddingsMagician by Raymond E. FeistThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyDragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret WeisThe Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks
Best Fantasy of the 80s
343 books — 693 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardHyperion by Dan SimmonsNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Classic Science Fiction - 1980-1989
310 books — 260 voters
Confessions Of An Honest Man by Arthur RoschBeyond Mere Belief by Greg Van ArsdaleOn The Trail of Delusion by Fred LitwinConspiracy U by Scott A. ShayForty-Ninth by Boris Pronsky
Best Conspiracy Theories Books
31 books — 46 voters

George Orwell
When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minute Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?" That was very true, he thought. There was a ...more
George Orwell, 1984

George Orwell
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell, 1984

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