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Yevgeny Zamyatin

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1924
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 250

In a glass city where citizens are numbers on a mathematical schedule, an engineer building a ship to conquer worlds falls for a rebel woman, discovers he has a soul, and is surgically cured of it before he can use it to help her revolt.

freedom and crime are as closely related as—well, as the movement of an aero and its speed
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin

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