By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine - Considering that Lord of the World was published in 1907, twenty-five years before the publication of Huxley’s novel and forty-two years earlier than Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, it can claim preeminence in terms of its prophetic power. Huxley and Orwell were both writing after the Bolshevik Revolution and Mussolini’s March on Rome and were able to see the consequences of communist and fascist totalitarianism with the wisdom of hindsight... Benson, on the other hand, was writing ten years before the Russian Revolution and fifteen years before the rise of fascism in Italy.