The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner

First published 1972 · 461 pages

About this book

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 undrinkable—unless you’re 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.

  • Pollution
  • Fiction
  • Fiction in English
  • Science fiction
  • Climatic changes
  • Dystopias
  • Fiction, science fiction, general

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