That's one I'll have to read.
Another good one is the old, time honored 1984. Everyone should read it before elections this year.
Big Brother is government surveillance
Newspeak is how we text message today
Thought crimes are "preemptive strikes" on people who haven't commited a crime yet.
Children are encouraged to turn their parents into the police if they hear them talking negatively about the government.
Our enemies and allies change throughout the book. We are allies with side A and at war with side B, then are at war with side A and an ally with side B. Just like we were an ally of Iraq and an enemy of the USSR, and now are at war with Iraq and an ally of Russian Federation.
The list of things goes on and on.
The interesting thing is that the original title of the book was 1948, as it was written in 1949. Orwell was making the point that we were already in this state back then. His publisher made him change the name because government censorship was aready going on and there was no way it would have been able to have been published.
This was a good book. I need to reread it again.