Type of bind: Hardcover
Label: Random House
Manufacturer: Random House
Page Count: 317
Printing Date: 1970
Publishing house: Random House
Sale Popularity Level: 813371
Studio: Random House
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Chip is being raised in a society that for the most part is organized and has its resources adjusted by computer. There are no fights, no need to shave, and no diseases. Everyone is living at least to 32. What more could one ask for. Then there are in theory a few misfits that haven't been to see their counselors and evidently not taking their medicine. You guest it, Chip is just determined that It is ridicules to have computers determine your life. He at lest does not want them to control his life. This book has many twists and turns. Some you will guess and some you won't. So be prepared.
Naturally working in Information Systems I can not bring my self to enjoy the ending. Now it is fun to compare this work with "Brave new World" by Aldous Huxley for attitude and "1984" by George Orwell, for subterfuge. Others compare with "Logan's Run" by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, for the age thing and corrective action. They missed two good ones. They are "Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron" (1995) for that brain numbing effect and "Gattaca" (1997) for the genetic thing.
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