Mason's Rats - Neal L. Asher

When George Orwell wrote ‘Animal Farm’, he was very obviously not simply writing a children’s tale about a group of revolutionary animals who manage to wrest control of the farm away from the farmer and form an animal’s paradise, only for the revolution’s leaders to succumb inevitably to the same corruption which they had so despised in the farmer. Animal Farm, as probably most of the country are aware, is a none-too-subtle allegory of the Russian revolution, through which Orwell sought to discredit the USSR as no better than the capitalist states it opposed. With the USSR now dismantled and socialism itself no longer on the ...  Read the complete review