The Sheep Look Up
by John Brunner
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060105585
- ISBN 13
- 9780060105587
- Seller
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Mulvane, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
1972 Nebula Award nominee…This angry novel of the future is John Brunner's sequel to his award winning story of overpopulation, stand on Zanzibar. In a brilliant and savage attack on our suicidal complacency in the face of an undeniable truth – that we are killing this planet and all that lives on it with chemicals, drugs, indifference, stupidity and greed – the author leads us from a Europe where the Mediterranean is stagnant and dead to the rocky mountains west where the water supply has been flooded with poisonous gas. in chilling detail he tells of the people who live on earth and their attempts to come to terms with their environment. The sheep look up is a brilliant novel wit the prophecy of 1984 and the shock of Clockwork Orange. Fiction.
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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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- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #12-103018
- Title
- The Sheep Look Up
- Author
- John Brunner
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- BCE
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060105585
- ISBN 13
- 9780060105587
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 423
- Keywords
- Fiction
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