The Sheep Look Up
Food and crops, water and scarce resources—all are undergoing major stresses due to human incompetence and greed. In The Sheep Look Up, Brunner describes the lives of the people in the midst of ecological catastrophe and their attempts to come to terms with their environment.This is the first...
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Food and crops, water and scarce resources—all are undergoing major stresses due to human incompetence and greed. In The Sheep Look Up, Brunner describes the lives of the people in the midst of ecological catastrophe and their attempts to come to terms with their environment.This is the first limited edition of The Sheep Look Up ever published. This edition features an introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson, one of science fiction's best-known writers. The book is also signed by Robinson and features an interview with Brunner, a column by John Brunner, and a short autobiography with photographs.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781933618531 (1933618531)
Publish date: June 1st 2010
Publisher: Centipede Press
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
This book may be the bleakest, darkest, and most depressing dystopian novel I’ve ever read. It’s the kind of book that motivated me to read out on my deck whenever I could, so I could be surrounded with fresh air, sunshine, singing birds, and healthy, green, growing things. The book seemed twice a...
This is a story told with human detail in a horrifying dystopia.