The Sheep Look Up
by Brunner, John
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good with No dust jacket as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0704312921
- ISBN 13
- 9780704312920
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Quartet Books. Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1974). Softcover. 0704312921 . Foxing. Spine faded with creasing. Previous owner's name. ; 1974 paperback reprint. 457 [9] pages. Page dimensions: 179 x 110mm. Science fiction nobel. "'The Sheep Look Up' (1972), perhaps the most unrelenting and convincing dystopia of the four, and depressingly well documented, deals scarifyingly with Pollution in a plot whose relative looseness allows for an almost essayist exposition of the horrors in store for us." - John Clute, in SF Encyclopedia (fourth edition, online edition). .
Synopsis
The Sheep Look Up is a science fiction novel by British author John Brunner, first published in 1972. The novel's setting is decidedly dystopian, the book dealing with the deterioration of the environment in the United States. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972. The title of the novel is a quotation from the poem Lycidas by John Milton: The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ...
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24022
- Title
- The Sheep Look Up
- Author
- Brunner, John
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0704312921
- ISBN 13
- 9780704312920
- Publisher
- Quartet Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1974)
- Keywords
- 0704312921
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....