We: 100th Anniversary Edition: WordFire Classics

By Yevgeny Zamyatin, Gregory Zilboorg, Erekson Holt and Paul Di Filippo

Before Orwell, Before Huxley, there was Zamyatin.

 

When society has programmed you to sleep . . .

 

How do you wake yourself up?

 

The One State is a world where people are merely numbers, and free will itself is a disease. Most are happy in their role as cogs in a huge machine, controlled by the ever-watchful Benefactor.

 

However, on the eve of the launch of the Integral—the spcaecraft that will impose the One State's way of life everywhere—starship architect D-503 meets I-330, a female number as irreverent as she is beautiful.

 

The Benefactor has quantified human experience, circumscribed it, reduced it to nothing but a series of mathematical equations—that is, until one man factors back in the ultimate unknown: love.

 

This is We, the groundbreaking novel that inspired 1984 and Brave New World, the two towering dystopian works of the twentieth century.

Discover it for yourself today.

 

"The leader of our prose in the 1920's." —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

"How could I have missed one of the most important dystopias of the 20th century? . . . I was amazed by it." —Margaret Atwood

 

Bonus! Includes a fresh translation of Zamyatin's "Death Sentence Appeal" letter to Stalin, and "Love Is the Function of Death" a bold new essay by noted science fiction author, reviewer, and scholar Paul Di Filippo.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WordFire Press
• Release date: Jun 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781680572070

Reviews for We

[selinalynn69 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

very similar to 1984.

[encephalical · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Fucking awesome.

[Willis Meinhardi · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It's a hundred years old, but still reads as fresh and relevant for all times.