1984 by George Orwell

There is something timelessly interesting in anything that foretells the future. That sense of knowledge beyond the current time gives any prediction an air of mysticism, as well as dread for those who will expect the worst. The subjects of any prediction will always remember the bad over the good, for they may carve to their heads the possibility of them dying while falling down a cliff instead of them being able to climb a mountain. But Nineteen Eighty-Four makes no reservations for the good. Humanity will fall down the cliff, and humanity remembered.