This man's most famous work tells of the Mephi struggling against the One State and its Benefactor, while the "irrational number" of love infects D-503, who keeps a diary to be launched with the spaceship Integral.
In one story by this author, a former soldier suffers stage fright when trying to impress a policewoman, Katya, by filling in for the drunken actor supposed to play the titular "Lion". Masha kills herself when one of this author's protagonists, Martin Martinych, is confronted for stealing firewood in his story "The Cave." His time in Newcastle upon Tyne supervising the building of icebreakers led him to write a satire of England called The Islanders, which is often published with his story "The Fisher of Men". This man's most famous work tells of the Mephi struggling against the One State and its Benefactor, while the "irrational number" of love infects D-503, who keeps a diary to be launched with the spaceship Integral. For 10 points, name this Russian author of the dystopian novel We.
In one story by this author, a former soldier suffers stage fright when trying to impress a policewoman, Katya, by filling in for the drunken actor supposed to play the titular "Lion".
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin