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The groundbreaking dystopian novel that inspired 1984 and Brave New World. "e;The best single work of science fiction yet written."e; -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 "e;Death Sentence Appeal"e; letter to Stalin, and "e;Love Is the Function of Death"e; a bold new essay by noted science fiction author, reviewer, and scholar Paul Di Filippo. "e;How could I have missed one of the most important dystopias of the 20th century? . . . I was amazed by it."e; Margaret Atwood "e;One of the literary curiosities of this book-burning age."e; George Orwell