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I find this criticism and Eliot's of very little value without Orwell's choice of rebuttals. The format of 1984 is very different from A clock Work Orange, which is the closest thing I can think of to Asimov's request. 1984 works on a different level because it doesn't distance the reader from the characters by giving them new vices or unessential tech that we must map to the present. The pigs in animal farm also work very well from Orwell's perspective. I don't think he viewed his class controlling India as an accident, and for all intents he was a civic minded pig that at best understood that his peers were going too far in making an empire with all the unfortunate traits of past empires.