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1983 novel by György Dalos
April 2022
1985: What Happens After Big Brother Dies 1985 What Happens After Big Brother Dies.jpg György Dalos Hungarian, English Pantheon Books 1983 0394537807 1984
1985 is an unofficial 1983 sequel to George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.https://archive.org/details/1985historicalre00dalo 1985: What Happens After Big Brother Dies Dalos György 1983 Pantheon Books 9780394537801 New York English registration
Written by Hungarian author György Dalos, this novel begins with the death of Big Brother and reflects an intermediate period between 1984 and a more optimistic future characterized with a decline in orthodoxy of the totalitarian system, struggles of the ensuing powers and the near destruction of the Oceania air force by Eurasia.https://wearethedead.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/1985-what-happens-after-big-brother-dies/ 1985: What Happens After Big Brother Dies goodthinkful 2009-03-03 We are the Dead en 2020-01-22
Significance
Critic Pat Harrington found the novel's emphasis on the Thought Police embracing a kind of "openness" and pressuring Party cliques through public opinion to be a prescient look at what Mikhail Gorbachev was to attempt in the former Soviet Union with glasnost and perestroika.Harrington Pal Review: 1985 – A Sequel to George Orwell's 1984 by Gyorgy Dalos https://countercultureuk.com/2014/12/30/review-1985-a-sequel-to-george-orwells-1984-by-gyorgy-dalos/ CounterCultureUK.com 6 April 2021 30 Dec 2014 Rather than ruling by fear, the secret police would attempt to control "the public sphere," bringing people to their cause of their own free will.
Reception
The novel has received several reviews, including in English in the Fantasy Review by Brian Stableford. and in French in SFère by Marcel Becker.Title: 1985 https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2058551 2024-05-31 www.isfdb.org
The novel was a nominee for the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 1988 and 1999.
Translations
The novel has been translated to English and several other languages. In other languages the book is named
1985: Un récit historique, Hong Kong, 2036
1985: A Historical Report (Hongkong 2036)
1985: történelmi jelentés
Neunzehnhundertfünfundachzig: Ein historischer Bericht (in German)
References
Category:1983 science fiction novels
Category:Dystopian novels
Category:Hungarian science fiction novels
Category:Works based on Nineteen Eighty-Four
Category:Sequel novels
Category:Novels set in 1985
Category:20th-century Hungarian novels
Category:Works of fiction named after a year