Today's pie virtually ruined — miserable state (8)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

Anagram [ruined] of TODAY’S PI{e} [virtually]. Often used with reference to books and films. Perhaps the most famous dystopian novels are Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.