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<p><strong>Before there was Huxley; before there was Orwell; there was Zamyatin.</strong></p><p>The grandfather of dystopian fiction wasn't George Orwell or Aldous Huxley; it was an obscure writer one they both borrowed from. </p><p><em>We</em> by Yevgeny Zamyatin was written in-and smuggled out of-Soviet Russia.</p><p>In it the One State is a world where people are numbers free will is a disease and life has been reduced to a mathematical equation-that is until one man tries to factor in the ultimate unknown: love.</p>