We - The book banned by the Soviets that inspired 1984!
We by Yevgenzy Zamyatin is the grand-daddy of all dystopias that couldn't be published in the USSR until 1988! Extremely well-written and full of interesting ideas - petroleum food, anyone?
Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time · Brent Gaisford, Cody Troyer
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Show Notes
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. Unless D-503 can find a space within himself - that disease the ancients called a soul.
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Similar books we recommend:
- 1984 by George Orwell (https://hugonauts.simplecast.com/episodes/1984)
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (https://hugonauts.simplecast.com/episodes/brave-new-world)
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn