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Before Brave New World

Before 1984,,.There was...

In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only num-bers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly bal-anced equation. Primitwe passions and instincts have been subdued. Even naturę bas been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship IntegraI, that frontier—and whatever alien species are to be found there—will be sub-jugated to the beneficent yoke of reason.

One number, D-503, chief architect of the IntegraI, decides to record his thoughts in the finał days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unex-pected 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.

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.

^lW£ IS ONE OF THE GREAT NOYELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.'

Irving Howe

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