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",
Pahute Mesa Airstrip designated 18/36 and measuring . (The runway had numbers with both ends, but it is now marked with "X" on either end. A small tarmac area allows planes and helicopters to park at the airstrip. Beside three small hangars, there are no other permanent structures at the airstrip. Pahute Mesa Airstrip Pahute Mesa Airstrip is a private-use airport located northwest of the central business district of Mercury, in Nye County, Nevada, United States. The airport is owned by the United States Department of Energy. Originally built in 1941 as an emergency landing strip for Army Air Corps fighters, the airstrip