1924 · 248 min read · 62,000 words
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Zamyatin wrote this while watching the Russian Revolution eat itself. A century later, his vision of total transparency as total control feels less like fiction and more like a product roadmap. Every surveillance state, every social credit system, every algorithm that decides what you see — Zamyatin saw it first.
This text is in the public domain in the United States. Source: Project Gutenberg.