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  1. A futuristic novel by George Orwell,
  2. published 1949, which tells of an
  3. individual's battle against, and eventual
  4. surrender to, a totalitarian state where Big
  5. Brother rules. It is a dystopia (the opposite
  6. of utopia) and many of the words and concepts
  7. in it have passed into common usage
  8. (newspeak, doublethink, thought police).
  9.