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A fragment of iron ore probably feels the same joy of submission to precise, inevitable law when it clings to a lodestone.
Yevgeny Zamyatin • We (Momentum Classic Science Fiction)
His first long novel, 1996’s Chapaev and Void (published in the US as Buddha’s Little Finger and in the UK as The Clay Machine-Gun) has been called the first post-Soviet Russian literary bestseller.
The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay
O-90 lifted her face from the pillow and without opening her eyes she said, “Go away.” But because she was crying she pronounced it “Oo aaa-ay.” For some reason this absurd detail will not leave my memory.
Yevgeny Zamyatin • We (Momentum Classic Science Fiction)
Rich and poor alike flocked to the city with their dreams and desires, only to instantly forget who they were and what they wanted as they tumbled into a vortex of affluence and commotion that churned 365 days a year.