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Violence
A lot
Violence including terrorism and conflict; the world is a pressure cooker
Language
A lot
Heavy language; the world Brunner imagines has coarsened
Sexual Content
Some
Adult sexual content in a permissive future society
Substance Use
Some
Drug use common in the setting
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Psychological pressure of overpopulation, meaninglessness, and social fragmentation
What this book is about
Brunner's Hugo Award-winning 1968 novel imagines a world of almost eight billion people through a kaleidoscopic narrative structure borrowed from Dos Passos — news items, ads, and fictional magazine content interspersed with multiple storylines. Prescient about overpopulation, media saturation, genetic engineering, and corporate power. Dense and demanding.
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Graphic violence
Heavy language
Sexually explicit content
Demanding experimental structure
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