About this title: In the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, racked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty. But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city, designed to used state-of-the-art technology to create a completely human-friendly environment, offering its dwellers everything they could want in exchange for their oath of allegiance and their constant surveillance. But there are those who want to see the utopia destroyed, whose answer to tomorrow's best and brightest hope is mindless violence. And they have just ...
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Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Very Good. 1416555161 Mass Market Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light curve to the spine / light reading creases to the covers. read more
Description: Very Good. 0671828029 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in very good condition, may have slight worn corners and varying degre..._ read more
Description: Very Good. 0671828029 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in very good condition, may have slight worn corners and varying degre..._ read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket
Date Published: 1982-08-15
ISBN-13:9780671828028ISBN:0671828029
Description: Good. Some wear or creases on cover. Pages clean. Reliable seller. Fast shipping from central Texas. All international orders ship by airmail. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Timescape Books: Distributed by Simon and Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780671226954ISBN:0671226959
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. 328 p.; 23 cm. good reading copy read more
"The sci-fi aspect is thin, allowing the socio-political themes to shine through fairly blatantly. The story was engaging and interesting, with good plot twists and strong themes - my only negative comment is that this could be "literature" if the themes were presented with a bit more poetic crafting. The authors' "point" is all too in-your-face. Good literature makes such points more subtly, and ultimately more powerfully.
"If you like Niven and Pournelle, skip this book. Really poor writing that jumps all over the place. No real character development and far, far too many characters. The book was written in 1980 and it is very dated. Skip this one, trust me."
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