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Author: Zamyatin, Yevgeny Classic fiction (pre c 1945)Published on 6 August 2020 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Science Ficti on' series.Paperback | 272 pages111 x 179 x 18 | 156g 'The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. Le GuinThe dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, We depicts a futuristic totalitarian society, 'OneState', where humans have become numbers. Suppressed in Russia for decades, it is a chilling vision of a world enslaved by technology.'Zamyatin's parable looked forward to climate change and surveillance culture ... to peer into its future is to see modernity's reflection gazing darkly back' Economist Show more