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dustydigger
Posted 2015-03-03 4:14 PM (#9812 - in reply to #9810)
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Location: UK		Lol! MJ,at least you managed tp finish the book. I gave up only part way throiugh.It was so drab and dull in this particular world,and I couldnt connect with any of the characters at all.
There seems to be a common thread about labour relations in several books of this period,anxiety about unions,the frustrations of workers etc. I came across it in various forms in Player Piano,This Island Earth,The Forever Machine. A general unease with technology and man's relationship to machines seems to be widespread.And that is not including the huge fear of scientists and the atom bomb,the greatest bugbear of the time,where every other book makes dire predictions of destruction.

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