We: The 100th Anniversary Edition
We: The 100th Anniversary Edition
Before Huxley. Before Orwell. 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 spacecraft 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, circumscribe edit, reduced it to nothing but a series of mathematical equations—that is, until one man tries to factor in the ultimate unknown: love.
We is the groundbreaking novel that inspired 1984 and Brave New World, the two towering dystopian works of the twentieth century.
Discover it for yourself today.
Bonus: includes Zamyatin’s famous “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.
Student editor: Erekson Holt
Foreword author: Paul Di Filippo
eBook ISBN: 978-1-68057-207-0
Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-68057-206-3
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-68057-208-7
268 pages
Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin