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The Sheep Look Up (Paperback)
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Nebula Award Finalist: A "brilliantly crafted, engrossing"
dystopian novel of environmental disaster by the Hugo Award-winning
author of Stand on Zanzibar (The Guardian). 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. The water is
undrinkable-unless you're poor and have no choice. Large
corporations fighting over profits from gas masks, drinking water,
and clean food tower over an ineffectual, corrupt government.
Environmentalist Austin Train is on the run. The "trainites," a
group of violent environmental activists, want him to lead their
movement; the government wants him dead; and the media demands
amusement. But Train just wants to survive. More than a novel of
science fiction, The Sheep Look Up is a skillful and frightening
political and social commentary that takes its place next to other
remarkable works of dystopian literature, such as Margaret Atwood's
The Handmaid's Tale, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Ray
Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwell's 1984.
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