In which of these four novels is a leading role played by Engineer D-503?

“We” is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921, first published as an English translation in 1924, with the original Russian text first published in 1954.

The novel is remarkable in its futuristic perceptions and in its historical context. It describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. It influenced the emergence of dystopia as a literary genre and anticipated other well-known works such as Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”

Several writers, including Jack London and HG Wells, had previously attempted anti-utopian novels but Zamyatin was the first to combine a coherent concept with a satisfying narrative to create something like a blueprint for dystopia. “We” takes place in the ultra-rational One State, where everything from work to sex to music is mathematically regimented, uniformed "ciphers" have numbers rather than names, and everyone is under surveillance by the Guardians, under the command of an enigmatic dictator known as the Benefactor. The protagonist, D-503, is a drab and dutiful rocketship engineer who is seduced into an underground revolutionary movement by a charismatic female dissident called I-330.Eventually the rebels are routed, I-330 executed and D-503 lobotomised into total obedience. Zamyatin insisted on the freedom to be imperfect, irrational and sometimes unhappy, which is to say human.