Nebula Award Finalist: A โbrilliantly crafted, engrossingโ dystopian novel of environmental disaster by the Hugo Awardโwinning 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 undrinkableโunless youโre poor and have no choice. Large corporations fighting over profits from gas masks, drinking water, and clean food tower over an ineffectual, corrupt government.
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Environmentalist Austin Train is on the run. The โtrainites,โ 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.
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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 Atwoodโs The Handmaidโs Tale, Aldous Huxleyโs Brave New World, Ray Bradburyโs Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwellโs 1984.