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Blurb: Nebula Award Finalist: A brilliantly crafted, engrossing dystopian novel of environmental disaster by the Hugo Awardwinning 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 undrinkableunless youre 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 Atwoods The Handmaids Tale, Aldous Huxleys Brave New World, Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwells 1984.
Awards:
Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel
- Winner: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
- The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
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- When Harlie Was One by David Gerrold
- Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
- The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
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