Description:
WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin tells of D-503 and his discovery through a blooming irrational love that he possesses something that may destroy him: an individual soul.
Review Quotes:
"A literary landmark, led the way to Brave New World and 1984." -Saturday Review
"Zamyatin's influence on Orwell is beyond dispute." -Alex M. Shane, The Life and Works of Evgenij Zamjatin
". . . his book is not simply the expression of a grievance. It is in effect a study of the Machine, the genie that man has thoughtlessly let out of its bottle and cannot put back again. This is a book to look out for . . . " -George Orwell
"One of the best!" -The New York Review of Books
"The ur-text of science fiction dystopias." -Wall Street Journal
"The best single work of science fiction yet written." -Ursula K. Le Guin
"Philosophical as Plato's The Republic, interesting as the best utopias of H.G. Wells, cold as the muzzle of a loaded revolver, and sarcastic as Gulliver's Travels, WE is a powerful challenge to all Socialist utopias." -Pitirim A. Sorkin
"As the first major anti-utopian fantasy . . . has its own peculiar wryness and grace, sharper than the pamphleteering of 1984 or the philosophical schema of Brave New World, its celebrated descendants." -Kirkus Reviews
". . . along with Brave New World and 1984, forms a trio of world-famous works." -SF and Fantasy Book Review
"FANTASTIC . . . In spite of its grim ending, almost lyrically optimistic!" -The New York Times
"1984 shares so many features with WE that there can be no doubt about its general debt to it . . . Orwell's novel is both bleaker and more topical than Zamyatin's, lacking entirely that ironic humour that pervades the Russian work." -Robert Russell, Zamyatin's We