The novel depicts a dismal society of the future, in which everything is ruled by computers. In spite of its complex structure, the novel is very captivating. It has lots of insights into the structure of the society (most of the chapters are supplemented by a digression, which contains the society's description through rules, regulations or postulates) and at the same time the story is very suspenseful. It is a lot like mystery-type read, because till the very end of the last chapter the story is intense and unpredictable.

In addition to that, there is a lot of social satire: it shows how people's emotions are suppressed, how the ruling elite controls the majority, how the society aspires to achieve perfection by making every member of it perform the assigned duties and by not allowing anybody to deviate from the set standards. All of that is because computers and operating machines are on the foreground and everything else (people, in the first place) is reduced to the background.

The novel is centered around a rebellion against this super organized and super computerized machine, which goes as far as assigns each individual his or her distinguishing mark (each letter of the alphabet in a descending order represents belonging to a certain social rank ). Without revealing much more, let us end up with saying that the topic of fantastically created worlds of the future has lots of potentials and those potentials are reached in this short novel.