![]() ![]() What makes We revolutionary is that it foresaw the end result of every autocracy, regardless of supposed creed or ideology, and that’s what makes it relevant and still worth reading even (and perhaps especially) in our modern times. Originally created in 1921, We was the first work banned by the Soviet censorship board, but not for any deliberate parallels to the burgeoning autocracy that Lenin was building (and that Stalin would later finish). Greetings, readers, and may your fall be festive! It’s time for another book review, and this month we’re looking at a book which is most definitely not festive We by Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin-one of the earliest modern dystopia stories written, and an inspiration for Brave New World and 1984. ![]() Yevgeny Zamyatin (a new translation by Bela Shayevich) Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide. ![]() People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!. ![]()
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