There’s at least two more coming that I know of in the next 18-24 months, but I can’t say more than that. Sorry, hope that helps!

GOP celebrates, says “Wish we’d thought of it first!”

I have read it for the purpose of teaching it four out of the last five years and still find new things in it to discover and to talk about. It’s familiarity and otherness are still an essential part of the experience of re-reading it.

Think I remember. Wonder what happened to her?

Oui, bien sur 🤷🏼‍♂️

Is this about books or about your deeper feelings about agency and sex/ gender?

That trek across the wilderness in the last third … I didn’t want it to end! Amazing stuff.

Interesting take. I find it to be more paternalistic and echoes the idea of a BB as someone older and wiser who will guide [rule] you. Winston’s parents are dead too, no? I haven’t got the book in front of me. The intimacy between tortured and torturer also pushes the boundaries of what you’re suggesting … hmmm … and yes, the deep misogyny built into Winston’s view of Julia prior to their relationship (shooting her full of arrows? Paging Dr Freud …). I also hear echoes of critics of socialism and communism (as Orwell himself was) saying that every revolutionary basically wants a new master. Is O’Brien the “daddy” to Winston? He wants him to be, in the sense of a confidant and collaborator, and then ends up definitely as O’Brien’s slave (going all Hegelian here, yes). I dunno, it’s all interesting stuff. Love this book, change my mind about it every time I read it.

From the ever-growing number of them out there you can conclude no.

Jack Vance, Dying Earth (in omnibus) Gene Wolfe, Shadow of the Torturer Ursula LeGuin, Earthsea series

All original writers who can craft a sentence. Stay away from whatever is the big thing if you want more than just plot plot plot