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The groundbreaking dystopian novel that inspired 1984 and Brave New World. "The best single work of science fiction yet written." --Ursula K. Le Guin

When society has programmed you to sleep . . .

How do you wake yourself up?

The One State is a world where people are merely numbers, and free will itself is a disease. Most are happy in their role as cogs in a huge machine, controlled by the ever-watchful Benefactor.

However, on the eve of the launch of the Integral--the spacecraft that will impose the One State's way of life everywhere--starship architect D-503 meets I-330, a female number as irreverent as she is beautiful.

The Benefactor has quantified human experience, circumscribed edit, reduced it to nothing but a series of mathematical equations--that is, until one man tries to factor in the ultimate unknown: love.

Before Huxley. Before Orwell. There was Zamyatin.

Discover it for yourself today.

Bonus: includes Zamyatin's famous "Death Sentence Appeal" letter to Stalin, and "Love Is the Function of Death" a bold new essay by noted science fiction author, reviewer, and scholar Paul Di Filippo.

"How could I have missed one of the most important dystopias of the 20th century? . . . I was amazed by it." --Margaret Atwood

"One of the literary curiosities of this book-burning age." --George Orwell

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