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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970626203321

Autore

Roshwald Mordecai <1921->

Titolo

Level 7 / / Mordecai Roshwald ; edited and with a new foreword by David Seed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004

ISBN

9786612424229

9781282424227

128242422X

9780299200633

0299200639

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xlix, 210 p

Collana

Library of American fiction

Altri autori (Persone)

SeedDavid

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Civilization, Subterranean

Life on other planets

Nuclear bomb shelters

Underground areas

Nuclear warfare

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction by David Seed -- Looking Back in Wonder: The Author's Reminiscences and Reflections -- Preface by The Martian Institute for Archaeological Excavations in the Solar System -- Level 7 -- Appendix A: Training the Nuclear Warrior: A Manual for Level 7 -- Appendix B: The Politics of Ratology (a fantasy) -- Further Reading.

Sommario/riassunto

Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the "Push Buttons, " a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country's deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating attack and to be self-sufficient for five hundred years. Selected according to a psychological profile that assures their willingness to destroy all life on Earth, those who are sent down may never return. Originally published in 1959, and with over 400, 000



copies sold, this powerful dystopian novel remains a horrific vision of where the nuclear arms race may lead, and is an affirmation of human life and love. Level 7 merits comparison to Huxley's A Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 and should be considered a must-read by all science fiction fans.