# The First Dystopia

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Podcast: [Science Fiction](https://stenobird.com/podcast/science-fiction-2710085)
Published: 2026-04-14T06:39:29+00:00
Episode link: https://damiengwalter.com/2026/04/14/the-first-dystopia/
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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is a novel written at the beginning of the future. It’s hard to remember today, after Logan’s Run, The Handmaid’s Tale and Hunger Games made “dystopia” an entertainment genre, but when Yevgeny Zamyatin was writing in the early 1920s, it was only beginning to dawn on humanity just how bad the future might be. OrContinue reading "The First Dystopia"

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