Lynskey, Dorian
Entry updated 22 July 2026. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK journalist, music and theatre critic, podcaster and author whose first book of genre interest was The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's "1984" (2019), a well-reviewed study of the long career of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell. This was followed by Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World (2024; vt Everything Must Go: Why We Are Obsessed with the End of the World 2025), which wittily and with considerable relish explores imagined End of the World Disaster scenarios including the Last Man; impacts by Asteroids, Comets or Meteors; nuclear World War Three and other doomsday Weapons, plus Nuclear Winter; inimical AI, Computer and Robot scenarios; Pandemics; the Zombie apocalypse; and finally Ecological crises including Overpopulation and Climate Change. [DRL]
Dorian Lynskey
born UK
works (selected)
nonfiction
- The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's "1984" (London: Pan Macmillan/Picador, 2019) [nonfiction: George Orwell: hb/]
- Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World (London: Pan Macmillan/Picador, 2024) [nonfiction: End of the World: hb/]
- Everything Must Go: Why We Are Obsessed with the End of the World (London: Pan Macmillan/Picador, 2025) [nonfiction: vt of the above: pb/]
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