紮米亞金（1884—1937），青年時積極參與俄國十月革命，成為推翻舊製度，建立蘇聯的革命過程中的一員積極的鬥士。蘇聯成立之後，他敏銳地感覺到新製度中存在的種種弊端，寫作瞭一係列作品對之予以針砭，《我們》就是其中的一部力作。這些文章使他成為政府壓製的目標。紮米亞金被迫流亡法國。《我們》成為一部俄國人在蘇聯以俄語寫就，卻隻能翻譯成英文，在國外齣版的作品。

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Before Brave New World...

Before 1984...There was...</P>

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In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason. </P>

One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of inner space...and that disease the ancients called the soul. </P>

A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the beginning. </P>