The citizens of the One State live in a condition of 'mathematically infallible happiness'. D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue city state where nature, privacy and individual liberty have been eradicated. But over the course of his journal D-503 suddenly finds himself caught up in unthinkable and illegal activities - love and rebellion.
Banned on its publication in Russia in1921, We is the first modern dystopian novel and a satire on state control that has once again become chillingly relevant.
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We is the dystopian sci-fi that all others emulate. Totalitarian states overseen by a distant omniscient leader? Check. Experimental brain surgeries? Check. Rocketships and a sexually liberated population? Double check.
D-503's journals take us through the descent of a once content scientist whose liberation from the status quo brings him nothing but torment. He must decide if his love of logic, maths and trust in the Well-doer outweighs his burgeoing affection for I-333 and her affiliation with the revolution trying to overthrow the government.
Wait, did I stumble and end up here on the way to review 1984? No. Orwell took liberal amounts of inspiration from Zamyatin when writing his much more well known dystopian classic. In fact, Aldous Huxley and even Kurt Vonnegut have used Zamyatin's work as inspiration.
If you enjoy dystopian fiction, sci-fi or the type of satire that gets an author exiled from their mother country you should definitely read this groundbreaking novel. - Jessica (QBD)
Guest, 07/07/2019
