A novel by Anthony Burgess. Part One is actually an "interview", a meditation on George Orwell's 1984, while Part Two, the novel proper, presents a different sort of dystopia (or "cacotopia"), with England remade by permissiveness, punk, and Petrodollars, and a welfare state gone wrong. Just as Orwell's creation was meant to be about "the future" of 1948, Burgess drew a bleak caricature of his pre-Thatcher Britain.