We is an apocalyptic novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin The novel was written between 19201921 It was first published as a novel in English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E P Dutton in New York US with the initial Russian text first issued in the year 1952 The novel outlines a world of conformity and harmony within a united dictatorial state It is contingent on the emergence of allotropic as an intellectual genre George Orwell asserted that Aldous Huxleys quotA Brave New Worldquot published in 1931 must be partly derived from quotWequot but Huxley denied this In a glassconfined city of absolutely clear lines ruled over by the allpowerful quotcontributorquot the citizens of the dictatorial society lived a life of creativity and passion until D503 a mathematician who has a nightmare of numbers made a breakthrough he was an individual soul Set in the 26th century AD quotWequot was a classic novel and the ancestor of works such as 1984 by Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and George Orwell It was abolished for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for specific freedom yet is also a strong amazing and bright work of science fiction
