Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin 4 hr 18 min read

In the glass-walled One State of the future, where citizens are numbers ruled by the Table of Hours, the mathematician D-503 begins a forbidden diary, and falls into love, doubt, and revolt.

Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1924 novel is the foundational dystopian masterpiece. Visionary, chilling, immensely influential. Read it for the book that inspired both Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, a searing vision of a totalitarian future of enforced happiness and crushed individuality, a brilliant, poetic, and prophetic cornerstone of all dystopian fiction.

In its time

Published in 1924, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 18 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).