Lineages
Every great book stands on older ones. Homer gave Virgil his wanderings and his war; Virgil walked Dante through Hell. Start from a classic and follow its line, one work at a time, across the map.
Every great book stands on older ones. Homer gave Virgil his wanderings and his war; Virgil walked Dante through Hell. Start from a classic and follow its line, one work at a time, across the map.
Yevgeny Zamyatin, AD 1924
Vonnegut said he cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Zamyatin's We: an engineered society, an engineer who rebels against it, and a revolt that fails.
“We directly inspired: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) (Disputed by Huxley, see above.) Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading (1935–1936) Ayn Rand's Anthem (1938) George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952) William F.” Read it there
No later work in the atlas draws on Player Piano yet.