Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote We, first published in 1924. It is a work of science fiction and is rated 'Essential Read' in our catalogue.

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Essential Read

We

Name: We
Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin

by Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1924

Science Fiction · ranked #12 in category

Reviewed by the Book Verdict editorial team

D-503, a mathematician in a future totalitarian state called the One State where all citizens live in glass apartments with no privacy, falls in love with the revolutionary I-330. Zamyatin's novel — written in 1924 and suppressed in the Soviet Union — was a direct influence on Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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The verdict

Category: Science Fiction
First published: 1924 · 1920s
Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin
Standing: Essential Read

About Science Fiction

Science fiction is the literature of ideas — asking what human life looks like when technology, time or the laws of physics shift. At its best it uses speculation to say something precise and true about the present.