One of the most famous dystopias in literature, the forerunner of Huxley's Nowy wspaniały świat and Orwell's 1984. The best science fiction ever written - Ursula K. Le Guin. Long live the One State! Its citizens are under constant surveillance. Freedom and individualism are bad by definition, since they bring only chaos and anarchy. Houses have glass walls so that everyone lives in full view, and sex is rationed. The worst of all diseases is imagination. In the One State everyone is treated the same, stripped of their name and identified by a number. Everything a person needs to live is provided by the State, the guarantor of order, harmony and happiness. The narrator, Δ-503, is a mathematician who falls victim to an incurable illness – he develops a soul and falls in love. Zamyatin's novel is a truly prophetic vision – it portrays a terrifying and grotesque reality that modern societies are beginning to approach at an alarming rate. Thanks to surveillance in the style of China's social credit system, the world is striding briskly towards a totalitarian nightmare. Read Zamyatin before it is too late… Thanks to its intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism (…) Zamyatin's novel is superior to Huxley's Nowy wspaniały świat. - George Orwell.