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on June 25, 2010
Robin Parmar
commented on a projectWhile I believe that Zamyatin's "We" is a far superior novel to "1984", I think it's a bit much to say that Orwell stole from him. The style, tone, characters and narrative of booth books are completely different. Indeed, about the only similarity is the presentation of a future totalitarian dystopia, which in both cases was not futurist at all, but written directly from day-to-day life. Now Atwood on the other hand, could well be accused of plagiarising the plot of "The Handmaid's Tale" from works by Robert Heinlein and Keith Roberts, though it seems I am the only one to have ever noted this fact. Roberts writes far more convincingly from woman's point of view than Atwood ever managed in her annoyingly bad book. None of this has much to do with this intriguing project except the commonality of the name "Margaret".
Robin Parmar
Robin Parmar joined Kickstarter on June 25, 2010
