Narrator: Grover Gardner

Set in the 26th century A.D., Yevgeny Zamyatin's masterpiece describes life
under the regimented totalitarian society of OneState, ruled over by the all-
powerful "Benefactor." Recognized as the inspiration for George Orwell's 1984,
We is the archetype of the modern dystopia, or anti-Utopia. Clarence Brown's
brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first
published in Russia in 1988 after more than 60 years' suppression.

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.

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