The Sheep Look Up

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Nebula Award Finalist: A brilliantly crafted, engrossing dystopian novel of environmental disaster by the Hugo Awardwinning author of Stand on Zanzibar (The Guardian).

In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. The infant mortality rate is soaring, and birth defects, new diseases, and physical ailments of all kinds abound. The water is undrinkableunless youre poor and have no choice. Large corporations fighting over profits from gas masks, drinking water, and clean food tower over an ineffectual, corrupt government.

Environmentalist Austin Train is on the run. The trainites, a group of violent environmental activists, want him to lead their movement; the government wants him dead; and the media demands amusement. But Train just wants to survive.

More than a novel of science fiction, The Sheep Look Up is a skillful and frightening political and social commentary that takes its place next to other remarkable works of dystopian literature, such as Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale, Aldous Huxleys Brave New World, Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwells 1984.

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An arresting diary of whats in store for us. The Washington Post

A work of art!" James Blish

A complex tragic masterpiece. John Brunner is the Rachel Carson of science fiction. Ian Watson

Gripping on both an emotional and intellectual level. Booklist

Author Bio

John Brunner (19341995) was born in Preston Crowmarsh, Great Britain. He is the author of over one hundred books, including the Hugo Awardwinning Stand on Zanzibar, as well as The Jagged Orbit, The Sheep Look Up, The Shockwave Rider, A Maze of Stars, and The Compleat Traveller in Black. In addition to writing mystery, science fiction, and fantasy novels, he was a linguist and translator, and served as an officer in the Royal Air Force.