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This Perfect Day

by Ira Levin
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By the author of Rosemary's Baby, a horrifying journey into a future only Ira Levin could imagine.
Considered one of the great dystopian novels—alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World—Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers even forty years after publication.

The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called "The Family." The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they can never realize their potential as human beings, but will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. even the basic facts of nature are subject to the UniComp's will—men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night.

With a vision as frightening as any in the history of the science fiction genre, This Perfect Day is one of Ira Levin's most haunting novels.
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Publisher: Pegasus Books

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  • Release date: November 15, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9781605989365
  • File size: 1061 KB
  • Release date: November 15, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9781605989365
  • File size: 1061 KB
  • Release date: November 15, 2010

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Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Thriller

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English

By the author of Rosemary's Baby, a horrifying journey into a future only Ira Levin could imagine.
Considered one of the great dystopian novels—alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World—Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers even forty years after publication.

The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called "The Family." The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they can never realize their potential as human beings, but will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. even the basic facts of nature are subject to the UniComp's will—men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night.

With a vision as frightening as any in the history of the science fiction genre, This Perfect Day is one of Ira Levin's most haunting novels.
Expand title description text
Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Thriller
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Pegasus Books

    Kindle Book
    Release date: November 15, 2010

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781605989365
    File size: 1061 KB
    Release date: November 15, 2010

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781605989365
    File size: 1061 KB
    Release date: November 15, 2010

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    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English