- Hardcover
- Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (September 1975)
- ISBN-10: 0399116877
- ISBN-13: 978-0399116872
- Product Dimensions: 50.8 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 9 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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The bestselling master of sex and suspense--at his thrilling best!
Here is the million-copy seller that conjures a what-if vision of America--as a nightmarish world of planned sex and casual terror, where a man and a woman who dare to love each other are hunted as dangerous criminals....
"Brilliant, horrifying--a suspense novel with a diabolical plot twist."--Mario Puzo --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Here is the million-copy seller that conjures a what-if vision of America--as a nightmarish world of planned sex and casual terror, where a man and a woman who dare to love each other are hunted as dangerous criminals....
"Brilliant, horrifying--a suspense novel with a diabolical plot twist."--Mario Puzo --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Addresses Bill Joy's questions before he asked,
By Len Delunas (Seattle) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tomorrow File (Paperback)
Several years ago this author suggested that our country will create a new branch of government - the scientific branch - for the purpose of identifying technolology that should not be pursued...and advising the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government to put that technology into the "tomorrow file" - essentially buried for a future time, when society might be better suited to absorb the consequences.Excellent concepts.Appropriate material to help consider Bill Joy's observations.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good weekend read;plenty of present-day parallels.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Tomorrow File (Paperback)
Sanders probably isn't writing sci-fi as much as he is using the future setting to avoid libel claims. The focus on youth, intelligence, and information as a source of power are no future stretch. Government's/industry's job is to keep people happy by carefully managing the flow and spin of information, to maximize the benefits,not to the public at large, but to the executives, politicians and bureaucrats. This is best accomplished in a society where most people don't give a rip, unless their own boat is rocked. For parallels,one need only look to the current impact on market indices or consumer confidence measures of a tiny tick in a government-produced labor or inflation statistic, or to the impact on our perception of public safety produced by a favorable crime statistic. Is Nick Flair that much different from Bill Gates/Clinton, in his early appreciation and clever use of the power that derives from control of information? I guess I read this as satire.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Realistic, innovative science fiction.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Tomorrow File (Paperback)
A book far ahead of its time, quite uncharacteristic of Sanders but still innovative and compelling. Nick Flair, the protagonist, gives the reader a view of the future from a 1970's perspective. There is no supercomputer controlling the world, just the basic ingenuity of mankind. Think of it as Brave New World and 1984 produced for daytime TV.
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