Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand, is set in a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines ruled over by the all-powerful ‘Benefactor’. In this totalitarian society of OneState, citizens live out lives devoid of passion and creativity—until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia and inspired George Orwell’s 1984. It was suppressed for many years in Russia but remains a resounding cry for individual freedom. Clarence Brown’s brilliant translation, based on the corrected text first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years’ suppression, is a powerful, exciting, and vivid work of science fiction.