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I backed this anthology on Kickstarter because I recognized a few of the contributors' names, and was curious to see what this anthology purportedly written in the tradition of George Orwell's 1984 would have to say. Each short story is a different, pessimistic view of the future.While individual stories were fine, I thought this was a somewhat weak anthology overall. The power of Orwell's imagining in 1984 was that he tied it to existing horrors, created an allegorical future society, and made
Unsung Stories' 2084 is a collection of fifteen views of our future inspired by Orwell's classic novel. What kind of a world could we see one hundred years after 1984? It seems almost redundant to ask if Big Brother will still be watching us. In his introduction, George Sandison suggests that these tales are less predictions of dystopian futures than extensions of our present fears. As technology becomes ever more prevalent in our lives, are our fears of too much surveillance and too little priv...
I really enjoyed this collection stories. There were only two of the fifteen that I didn't really enjoy. I think the best Kickstarter I've backed this year!
2.5/5.0
Great collection. Buy it, read it, be shocked, amused, entertained. All these excellent shorts have Something To Say. Stand out pieces for me: Hocking's Fly Away Peter (chills), A Good Citizen by Anne Charnock and The Endling Market by EJ Swift & Devlin's March, April, May (a reflection of all *this* in a broken mirror).
The short stories in this book are way too shallow and predictable. Having seen black mirror on TV has set new standards in dystopian futures. Unfortunatley this book did not make me think a lot about the presented issues in the projected future. The book lacks subtleness, it mostly presents every story in black and white good and evil.
Book Reviewed by Clive on www.whisperingstories.comHere we have fifteen short stories from different authors, all with a pedigree. The stories were specifically commissioned by George Sandison and in his introduction he explains that like Orwell’s 1984 this is not a book about the future but an extrapolation of today’s society. We therefore have stories based around technology, social media and European immigration alongside the expected space travel and post-apocalyptic themes.Sandison has chos...
2084 is an anthology of fifteen short stories specially commissioned by the publisher, Unsung Stories, and supported by a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. It offers“15 predictions of the world, 67 years in the future.”The authors have created a variety of dystopian societies that it is distressingly easy to believe could come to be.In each of the stories technological innovation has created a shift in the way people live, not necessarily for the better. Monitoring of everyday activity by
The title of this anthology is a riff on George Orwell's "1984" albeit one hundred years into the future. Orwell's book is not a direct influence, however, in that none of the authors here are producing 'sequels' of any kind, but the thematic approach of extrapolating our current present into a theological future should our society / situation remained unchecked (or checked, depending on your viewpoint) holds sway. Like many anthologies, some stories will appeal to some readers more than others....
I quite liked the premise of this book. If you were to roll forward the world of 1984 by a century, what would the world of 2084 look like? The book is an anthology of views of this world. They are described as predictions, but they aren't. They are visions of a future. One that we wish, in some cases, never come to pass.I funded the book on Kickstarter, so I received a slightly different edition to the one described. However, it contains the anthology of fifteen short stories. Some are very sho...
‘2084’ is a collection of specially commissioned short stories edited by George Sandison, set a century after the titular year of George Orwell’s seminal dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’. Since its publication, the themes, stories and language of Orwell’s novel have become part of popular culture in ways even its farsighted author could not have imagined. Populations willingly acquiesce in self-surveillance as part of their own easily manipulated personal narratives and Room 101 – the infa...
