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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin – A Review for #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Cities of science fiction - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We was the greatest science fiction novel that had yet been written. I’m not as well-read as she was, but We, so influential on later books like Brave New World and 1984, is definitely the greatest one in my experience. From the beginning, its narrator, known like […]

Filed Under: Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: 1984, dystopia, freedom, government, imagination, mathematics, rebellion, We, wildness

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Something is struggling to be born in this damaged and inspiring world, and I believe science fiction and its speculative cousins are helping us figure out what it is. It’s pushing the imaginations of fiction writers to bend and twist familiar forms to try to capture the forces that are hurling us into a barely conceivable future. This blog is my small way of exploring the half-perceived … Read More about About

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