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Dystopian fiction has become popular in recent years, with the successes of books like Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, and television adaptations such as Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. High-end publisher The Folio Society’s latest science fiction offering is one of the classics of the genre: a new edition of 1924’s We, by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin. It features original art by Kit Russell, and an introduction by the late Ursula K. Le Guin.
The book is widely considered to be the forerunner to the entire genre, helping inform such classics as Brave New World, 1984, and many others. The novel follows an engineer named D-503 living in a nation called OneState. He’s hard at work building a spaceship called the INTEGRAL, which will…
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/25/17148730/the-folio-society-yevgeny-zamyatin-we-kit-russell-beautiful-dystopian-authoritarianism