44 “purges and vaporisations” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 48.
45 “somewhere in the twentieth century” – Brazil (dir. Terry Gilliam, 1985).
46 “We used a lot of the same locations” – Interview with Radford.
47 “1985” – Mathews, p. 93.
48 “a stoned, slapstick 1984” – Quoted in ibid., p. 144.
49 “To me, the heart of Brazil” – Rushdie, “An Interview with Terry Gilliam.”
50 “Quite obviously they tend to stimulate” – Orwell, “Personal Notes on Scientifiction”, Leader Magazine, July 21, 1945, CW XVII, 2705, p. 220.
51 “a super state type of hero” – “Are Comics Fascist?”, Time, October 22, 1945.
52 “people who don’t switch off the news” – Alan Moore and David Lloyd, V for Vendetta (DC, 1990), p. 5.
53 Moore’s long list of influences– Alan Moore, “Behind the Painted Smile”, Warrior #17, March 1, 1984, reprinted in ibid., p. 267.
54 “nightmarish future England” – Ibid., p. 108.
55 “it would take something” – Ibid., p. 6.
56 “the wariness” – Margaret Atwood, “What The Handmaid’s Tale Means in the Age of Trump”, New York Times, March 10, 2017.
57 “silently at odds” – Atwood, Curious Pursuits, p. 335.
58 “speculative fiction” – Ingersoll (ed.), p. 161.
59 “There is more than one kind of freedom” – Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (Vintage, 1996), p. 34.
60 “I would not include anything” – Margaret Atwood, “Haunted by The Handmaid’s Tale”, Guardian, January 21, 2012.
61 “normal intercourse” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 319.
62 “a political act” – Ibid., p. 133.
63 “a refugee from the past” – Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, p. 239.