D-503's life is idealized, rational, and precise.

Under the rule of the omnipresent One State, perfection has been achieved. To attain it, society had to renounce any trace of nature in favor of technology and the control of humans, who have ceased to be individuals and have become mere numbers.

D-503's happiness is an inescapable obligation.

Thus pass D-503's days until a small cloud disturbs his tranquility: a woman, I-330, shows him a world completely unknown to him, a world of disease and passion, a world forbidden and long since banished. Unwittingly, D-503 has taken the first steps toward rebellion.

Long before Huxley and Orwell, the Russian Yevgeny Zamyatin managed to compose this astonishing narrative in 1920, which marks the true beginning of the dystopian novel. We, considered one of the masterpieces of science fiction, warns us today more than ever that we will never be safe from the threat of totalitarianism. This commemorative edition features the lucid and hypnotic illustrations of Mexican artist Tavo Montañez.