When I read Orwell's 'Nineteen-Eighty Four', I liked it. But I liked Huxley's 'Brave New World/Brave New World Revisited' more. Soon, I got to know about Yevgeny Zamyatin's work 'We', which inspired both Huxley and Orwell.
It is considered as the first work of modern dystopian fiction. Banned in Russia immediately upon its release in 1920, it was not legalized in the Soviet before 1989 (seventy years!). Also, Orwell has copied it no doubt. Which is not surprising as Orwell also copied Wladis...