Player Piano (novel)
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Player Piano is the debut novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr., published in 1952. The novel depicts a dystopia of automation partly inspired by the author's time working at General Electric, de
First edition, hardcover
Cover of Utopia 14, as the novel was titled for a 1954 release
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin, sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamiatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire.
Player Piano (novel)
…jobs. In the same interview, he acknowledges that he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We." A player piano is a modified piano that "plays itself". The piano keys move according to a pattern of holes punched in an unwinding scroll…
Yevgeny Zamyatin by Boris Kustodiev (1923).
Zamyatin around 1919
Tomb of Yevgeny Zamyatin at the "Cimetière de Thiais", Division 21, Line 5, Grave 36.