Tip-Off #129 - We

"You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul." - State doctor to D-503, "We" - Yevgeny Zamyatin.

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Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We is the overlooked precursor to classics such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Ursula Le Guin calls it "the best single work of science fiction yet written." The novel raises questions about science and technology but mor…