num_pages: 232
description: Before Brave New World...Before 1984... There was...WeIn the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier—will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason.One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful I-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery—or rediscovery— of inner space... and that disease the ancients called the soul.A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, WE is a classic dystopian novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the beginning.
language: English
title: We
titlecomplete: We
characters: S-4711, I-330, R-13, D-503, O-90
genres: Fiction, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Russia, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 93278
places: OneState
awards: awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: Deutscher Hörbuchpreis
category: Bestes Hörspiel
publisher: Harper Voyager