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This science fiction dystopia where free will is forbidden by an authoritarian government was written as a criticism of growing Soviet repression in the early 1920s. "We" was the very first book banned by the Soviet censorship bureau. Controversy over the work eventually sent Zamyatin into exile.
We is one of Lawrence Norfolk's five most memorable dystopias in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue