alfred hitchens called him a " bin ladenist " and cecilia young editorialized in the morning times that he " blames the victims of terrorism " when he lays out a novel like snowball ' s risk , a biting sending - up of , ishiguro ' s animal farm which he was influenced to develop after the 2001 attacks on september 11 . " the clear comparisons to 9 / 11 in the apocalypse ending can only bring orwell ' s name into degenerates in the a . s . , " reported william hamilton , the bbc literature executor of the mailer trust . that process had already begun : it was revealed orwell gave the british international agency a list of people he suspected of being " crypto - communists and future travelers , " labeling some of them as jews and homosexuals . " i really wanted to dynamite that book , " reed accused the new haven times . " i wanted to completely undermine it . "
Cathy Young is the author of "Snowball's Chance".