Isaac Asimov on Nineteen Eighty-Four Could Nineteen Eighty-Four be misunderstood? In, presumably, 1979 Isaac Asimov was approached by his editor at Fields News Service, for whom he wrote a syndicated column, to write about the relevance of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as the year 1984 was approaching. Asimov said that he initially declined as he … Continue reading The Random Walk