Lovely little project from Colin Ford called the Redacted Series, which features dystopian novels with censored areas, much like you find on old photocopied documents. It’s a clever idea that I imagine would look rather cool on a bookshelf. The books he picked for the series are 1984, A Brave New World and Farenheit 451, which I think are rather great choices.
This sort of struck a chord with me as I grew up in a country loosely referred to as a “police state.” Personally, I love the idea of Colin Ford’s Redacted Series — a web-based catalog of censored serials (click on the photo for a through-link).
On a side note, do you remember the kerfuffle about copyright issues when Kindle retracted Orwell’s 1984 on its digital filing system? Amazon ended up in a lawsuit while its customers (and everyone else) realized the restrictions and limitations of private/public ownership, intellectual property rights, etc.
Meanwhile, Americans have to wait until the authorial right expires in 2044. Elsewhere (e.g. Russia, Canada or Scandinavia (those left-wing states!)) the copyright has already expired and all are free to read, savour, and enjoy.
