Ayn Rand 1 hr 11 min read

In a collectivist future where the word 'I' has been erased, one man commits the unspeakable crime of thinking alone.

Ayn Rand's 1938 dystopian novella follows Equality 7-2521 as he defies a society that has abolished individuality, rediscovering forbidden knowledge and, at last, the lost concept of the self. Stark, mythic, and endlessly assigned, it distills Rand's philosophy to its purest fable form. Read it for a short, fierce classic of the anti-collectivist tradition, urgent and unmistakable in its convictions.

In its time

Published in 1938, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

1 hr 11 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).