What other books are similar to 1984?
George Orwell was a great writer. What sre some of your other favorite authors. Ray Bradbury? Asimov?
Yes. I like both of those as well as Bradbury, Heinlein, and Clarke.  What modern writer is comparable? 
All really good. More recent was Ursula Le Guin who I enjoyed. Read anything by her?
Yes.  The Left Hand of Darkness and the Dispossessed were my favorites.  Which do you recomend? 
Haven't read any other of hers too, lol. I really enjoyed Clarke's movie 2001 a Space Odyssey. I assume you've seen it as it is a classic.
It was good, but I didn't really like the sequels.  I really liked his Rama series. Do you recommend any other authors?
Frank Herbert and the Dune series.  Do you think machines will rule humans one day?
That is a common theme.  At the rate computer processing power is advancing it could happen.  Especially once we have quantum computers.
Deep Blue beat Kasparov and robots are repairing robots. Maybe humans will need to learn to sleep with one  eye open, lol.