- Pollution, Fiction, Fiction in English, Science fiction
In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. The infant mortality rate is soaring, and birth defects, new diseases, and physical ailments of all kinds abound.
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Grave, contemporary, bleak and epic.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- John Brunner
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 461
- Publisher
- Del Rey, J'Ai Lu, Skyboat Media and Blackstone Audio
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781504032636
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“The day shall dawn when never child but may Go forth upon the sward secure to play.”
John Kilian Houston Brunner was a British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel and the BSFA Award the same year. The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA Award in 1970. His first novel, Galactic Storm, was written under the pen-name Gill Hunt when he was seventeen. He did not start writing full-time until 1958, some years after his military service.
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