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    From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to All on Sunday, July 04, 2021 18:55:00
    Hello All!

    In a glass-enclosed city of perfectly straight lines, ruled
    over by an all-powerful "Benefactor," the citizens of the
    totalitarian society of OneState are regulated by spies and
    secret police; wear identical clothing; and are distinguished
    only by a number assigned to them at birth. That is, until D-
    503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery:
    he has an individual soul. He can feel things. He can fall in
    love. And, in doing so, he begins to dangerously veer from the
    norms of his society, becoming embroiled in a plot to destroy
    OneState and liberate the city.

    Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We was the forerunner of
    canonical works from George Orwell and Alduous Huxley, among
    others.

    It was suppressed for more than sixty years in Russia
    and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, as well as
    a powerful, exciting, and vivid work of science fiction that
    still feels relevant today.

    The chilling dystopian novel that influenced George Orwell
    while he was writing 1984, with a new introduction by Margaret
    Atwood and an essay by Ursula Le Guin

    Originally written in 1924!

    We: A Novel | Paperback
    Yevgeny Zamyatin | Bela Shayevich | Margaret Atwood
    HarperCollins | Ecco
    Fiction / Dystopian / Literary / Classics
    Release date Nov 2, 2021
    $16.99 US list price

    Commentary: I read an earlier release of this a few years ago.
    It wasn't as action packed as I hoped it would be. Even at
    under 200 pages, it covered all the "issues" quite well. The
    government controlled sex was interesting.
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