In the One State of the Great Benefactor, individuals have been replaced by numbers and passions subdued.
The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of inner space...and that disease the ancients called the soul..
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.
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.
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.
But one frontier remains: outer space.
Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall.
Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued.
Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation.
In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers.
Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was at the beginning of the twentieth.
Yevgeny Zamyatin\'s page-turning science fiction adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel that became the basis for the tales of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, among so many others.
But when the chief architect of the spaceship Integral, known as D-503, has a chance meeting with the beautiful I-330, he stumbles upon an unexpected discovery that threatens all he believes about himself and the One State.
In the One State of the Great Benefactor, individuals have been replaced by numbers and passions subdued
