Nineteen Eighty-Four two novels, including Huxley's own "Brave New World Revisited". Comparisons with other dystopian novels like "The Handmaid's Tale", "Virtual Light", "The Private Eye" and "The Children of Men" have also been drawn. Nineteen Eighty-Four Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell published in June 1949. The novel is set in the year 1984 when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and propaganda. In the novel, Great Britain ("Airstrip One") has become a province of a superstate named Oceania. Oceania is ruled by the "Party",
Yucca Airstrip Yucca Airstrip Yucca Airstrip is a private-use airport located 17 miles (27 km) north of the central business district of Mercury, in Nye County, Nevada, United States. The airport is located on the Nevada Test Site and is owned by the United States Department of Energy. On the sectional chart it is depicted as an unverified airstrip. The airport was the staging area for Shot Badger, a test of the Upshot–Knothole Series of nuclear test shots on April 18, 1953. Yucca Airstrip Airport covers an area of and has two runways, one located on the salt flat and a shorter,