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Fiction

Thought Police

The secret police who watch the inner mind and hunt out any thought against the regime — thoughtcrime. Through informers and a net of surveillance, not even a rebellion kept in silence escapes them.

Source

1984 George Orwell / 1949

A near future ruled by a totalitarian state. The Party controls even people’s words and memories, watching thought itself in the name of Big Brother. It follows the small rebellion of Winston, a low-ranking Party member — a founding work of dystopian fiction.