Anthem is Ayn Rand's greatest work and too often overshadowed by her more controversial work. It is a ~100 page first person novella about a genius born into a post-apocalyptic society where equality is valued above all

By Parcel_Watches

Anthem is set after some kind of huge dark-age collapse where tons of tech is gone, and people live in a society that treats everyone as equals basically whether they want it or not. You get handed a role, you’re sent to a place to have a child with someone you don’t even know, and then you never see them again—the baby gets taken right away and you don’t hear from it. All of that is wrapped up in how it tries to push the whole idea of individuality, just in a pretty intense dystopian setup. I’m not really into a lot of Ayn Rand’s other stuff, but this is probably one of my favorite shorter books. You can still see her more extreme beliefs in it if you know what to look for, but it still feels like a pretty accessible look at what “equality” can lead to. It also hit me harder than Harrison Bergeron by Vonnegut, and I liked it a lot.