When I was young, nearly thirty years ago now, there was great resentment in the city of Nottingham because Frank Sinatra's goons reserved one of the lifts (elevators) in the hotel he was staying in, and wouldn't let anyone use it!

As to 1984, there is a great book called "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which is just as important, but sadly neglected. Considering that Zamyatin was writing contemporaneously with Orwell, within Stalin's Russia, and in his second language (English), "We" is slightly more than a masterpiece.