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My guess, through reading his stories and a good few autobiographies, is that he was not aware of the genre, even as it stood in those days.
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I don't believe I'm reading this. Orwell had certainly read H.G. Wells' 'War of the Worlds', (he even refers to Wells as the 'father of science fiction') and he wrote a note on Zemyatin's 'We', which was, as is well known, a key influence on '1984'. He was familiar with Jules Verne. Orwell had an abiding interest in popular culture, particularly in such publications as Boys Weeklies.