The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.

Literature & Fiction

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Literary

Penguin Twentieth Century Classics

Title A Soviet Heretic. Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Evgenij Ivanovi? Zamjatin) Author Evgenij Ivanovi? Zamjatin Publisher University of Chicago Press, 1970 Length 322 pages

A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Short Stories & Anthologies

University of Chicago Press

Before Brave New World... Before 1984...There was...
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In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason. 
One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of inner space...and that disease the ancients called the soul. 
A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the beginning.

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Harper/Voyager

The long-suppressed Russian masterpiece that goes beyond 'Brave New World' and '1984'. Part science fiction, part parable, part debate as to the role of reason in human life. A bitter indictment against regimentation, conformity and the depersonalization of the individual. One of the great novels of the 20th century. A brilliant, imaginative arraignment to totalitarianism.

BANTAM BOOKS

The dragon: Fifteen stories

Gollancz

D-503, a mathematician in the one thousandth year of the One State, threatens the national security when he falls in love

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Viking Press

One thousand years in the future, the perfect totalitarian state has stripped humanity of any desire of individuality, privacy, or control over their own lives. Or almost. When a government scientist becomes enamored with a sultry revolutionary, his eyes are opened to the horrors of his own unthinking, unfeeling existence in total subservience to the state. But when he enlists in her plot to overthrow the government and its all-seeing figurehead, the Well-Doer, he'll soon discover there is no escape, and freedom is an irretrievable relic of an all-but forgotten past.

Genre Fiction

Uproar Books

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Before Brave New World... Before 1984...There was...WEIn the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason. One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of inner space...and that disease the ancients called the soul. A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the beginning.

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