Coming Up For Air"That's the way we're going nowadays. Everything slick and streamlined, everything made out of something else." "Sentimental, you say? Anti social? Oughtn't to prefer trees to men? I say it depends what trees and what men." George Orwell, Coming Up for Air Coming Up for Air is the seventh book by English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938 and 1939 while Orwell spent time recuperating from