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SCIENCE FICTION-POLLUTION-SOCIAL,MORAL,POLITICAL,INDUSTRIAL-IS THE KEY TO THE UNITED STATES OF THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE.THE SEAS ARE FOUL,THE RIVERS CHOKED,THE LAND IS POISONED BY THE EXCESSIVE USE OF INSETICIDES,NO ONE MOVES OUT OF DOORS IN THE CITIES WITHOUT A FILTER-MASK AND THE SUN IS PERMANENTLY OBSCURED.THE STORY FOLLOWS THE LIVES OF A DIVERSE RANGE OF CHARACTERS FROM ALL LEVELS OF SOCIETY.MANY ARE RESIGNED,A FEW ARE SEEKING NEW WAYS FOR MANKIND TO SURVIVE,BUT THE ONE MAN WHOM MILLIONS BELIEVE HAS THE SOLUTION CANNOT BE FOUND.
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The Sheep Look Up
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Quartet Books (1974), London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0704312921
ISBN 13: 9780704312920
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Foxing. Spine faded with creasing. Previous owner's name. ; 1974 paperback reprint. 457 [9] pages. Page dimensions: 179 x 110mm. Science fiction nobel. "'The Sheep Look Up' (1972), perhaps the most unrelenting and convincing dystopia of the four, and depressingly well documented, deals scarifyingly with Pollution in a plot whose relative looseness allows for an almost essayist exposition of the horrors in store for us." - John Clute, in SF Encyclopedia (fourth edition, online edition). Seller Inventory # 24022
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