'We' is a 32nd-century world where names are replaced by letters and numbers, people eat petroleum products, the state controls everything, including their intimate lives, and the existence of a soul is grounds for a visit to a therapist. Science fiction, you say—you can make up anything. Yes, but for this 'anything,' written by Yevgeny Zamyatin in 1920, the author was persecuted, and the novel wasn't published in the USSR until 68 years later.
The science fiction turned out to be piercing, which, as we know, the truth usually is. That was in the twentieth century, and today, the thirty-second century imagined by Zamyatin is a hundred years away. Take a look inside it now!
