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Jenny (Reading Envy)
Read again to discuss on SFF Audio; will link to podcast when it is posted.

This book has not been on my radar for long, but when something is considered to be "the best single work of science fiction yet written" (Ursula K. Le Guin) and the precursor of 1984 and Brave New World, not to mention the majority of current science fiction (Bruce Sterling introduction), I knew I couldn't put it off.

An interesting historical note - it was published in England (1921) long before it was published in Russi
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Mounir
[Review in English below]
هذا العمل الفذ - الذي يحكي عن عالم خيالي يأتي بعد ألف سنة من الآن وتسيطر عليه المادة والأرقام والخطوط المستقيمة، ويتحول فيه المواطنون إلى شبه آلات في خدمة الدولة - لا يجب أن نعتبره مجرد رواية "ديستوبيا" او مجرد رواية نقد سياسي. وكما تقول مترجمة النسخة الانجليزية فإن الرواية يمكن ان نخرج منها بتفسيرات عدة: كدراسة لاغتراب الانسان عن ذاته في المجتمع الصناعي الحديث؛ كرواية ذات رموز دينية؛ كأسطورة حديثة تتضمن الأحلام والأنماط البدئية العتيقة التي تحدث عنها يونج؛ أو كرواية خيا
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Sharon
Jan 17, 2020 rated it really liked it
Amazing dystopian novel, especially considering that it was written in the 1920s and inspired many other dystopian books.
Yrinsyde
Jan 25, 2024 rated it really liked it
Wow - what an ending. It makes me think of the mass lobotomies undertaken to 'control' troublesome mentally ill patients. This classic dystopia hasn't really dated. It is a surveillance state where everything is transparent (glass structures) and regulated. Zamyatin must've been really taken with Taylor's 'scientific management' which aimed to maximise the workforce in order to maximise economic benefit. This was done by analysing how much time it took to achieve a task and then sorting out who ...more
dimwig
Apr 05, 2021 rated it really liked it
Shelves: russia
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Daisy
I couldn't stick with this. I so wanted to like it. I gave it up and had my friend tell me what happened. Maybe I'll give it another try one day.
I got my copy from the library. It's translated by Natasha Randall.
But I like the cover.
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RG
Oct 04, 2011 rated it it was amazing
A fantastic dystopian novel, and a brilliant Fall-of-a-believer narrative.
Ching-In
Apr 05, 2008 marked it as to-read
Friederike Knabe
Nov 24, 2008 marked it as put-aside
Shelves: ce-europe
Marieke
May 26, 2009 marked it as to-read
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Sep 21, 2009 marked it as to-read
Nick
Nov 21, 2009 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Heather
May 21, 2010 marked it as to-read
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Kevin Xu
Nov 24, 2010 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Sep 29, 2011 rated it liked it
Nina
Apr 29, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Tea Beradze
Nov 25, 2018 marked it as to-read
Long
Nov 07, 2021 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: sci-fi
Jane
Aug 31, 2024 rated it liked it
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