Appointment in Tomorrow A Positronic Book
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
03.04.2018
Verlag
Positronic PublishingSeitenzahl
38
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/0.7 cm
Gewicht
221 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-5154-2142-9
Appointment in Tomorrow is a sharp classic science fiction story of power, propaganda, secrecy, and social control by Fritz Leiber, one of the great stylists of twentieth-century speculative fiction. In a future shaped by institutional authority and carefully managed belief, the machinery of rule depends not only on force, but on illusion: the right symbols, the right rituals, the right public story, and the suppression of anything that might break the spell. Leiber brings his characteristic intelligence and unease to a world where technology and authority have become intertwined with myth. The result is not simply an adventure about the future, but a political and psychological science fiction tale about the way societies manufacture obedience and how dangerous it can be to see through the structure too clearly. Compact, tense, and unsettling, it shows Leiber's gift for turning speculative premises into stories of human fear, ambition, and manipulation. Readers of classic science fiction, dystopian fiction, social satire, political SF, and vintage magazine stories will find Appointment in Tomorrow a strong example of Leiber's range beyond fantasy and horror. This Positronic edition places the story alongside the classic speculative works that used imagined futures to expose the pressures, deceptions, and dangers of the present.
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