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D-503 begins his numbered records convinced that the United State has made human life as precise as a mathematical equation. A mathematician building the spacecraft Integral, he hopes his account will help carry the State’s ideals to other worlds. Citizens bear numbers, letters pass through official scrutiny, and devices along the streets record conversations. His admiration for this order gives the reader a view of control through the language of someone who believes in it.

Meetings with I-330 disturb the certainty of his calculations and the rhythm of his thoughts. In the middle excerpt, an unfamiliar world beyond the Green Wall overwhelms his ability to describe it, while competing personal loyalties provoke an angry confrontation. Broken sentences, geometric images and sudden changes of feeling make this science fiction novel a close study of a mind struggling to reconcile a collective ideal with private experience.