Anthem was the sole inspiration of Neil Peart when he wrote the lyrics to Rush' 2112. It's quite an interesting read, somewhere in between George Lucas' THX-1138 and Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four. Anthem was written well before Nineteen-Eighty-Four so no one can accuse Rand of copying the master.
Anthem is a novella, a short novel. As such it is remarkably well written. It does not have the 'John Galt'-bias that most of her later stories have.
You can download the novella for free from gutenberg (I'll write an entry about that website soon).
