Anticipation happily in large part inaccurate.

Written in 1966, this novel Harry Harrison was at the time giving a cold sweat, at least to those who went to see the film that was shot. If I understand the back cover it is thanks to the film that this book has had some success. Think! Dare to write such a killjoy in the middle of the war boom, it was almost to want to kill her work.

Personally, I prefer "SEED CRAZY" Anthony Burgess wrote a few years ago (Advantage of anticipation perhaps), in fact the two authors have projected their history over the same period is the transition to the year two thousand. While Anthony BURGESS ad color outset, his characters remaining rather secondary, Harry Harrison chose to focus on the life of a cop, Andy, which is used in particularly hot month of August 1999 all sauces: hunt rioters of the New York facility, a town of thirty-five million inhabitants, who come crying before the offices of allowances due to rising food prices and have to quickly find a type murderer to unsavory activities. He murders is produced in quantity every day in New York, so he wonders why precisely on that one we put pressure on him ...

And now this banal police investigation, although I admit driving, we quietly brought on page 200 of a novel that into account ... 316. While we had already glimpses of the life of this city where almost everything is missing and water in particular, the few -Only rationed food moguls are supplied handsomely and was assassinated in our part- electricity goes off intermittently the showers are a luxury, one lives with patched clothes, so no oil but no cars rickshaws with draft men like India etc ... The second part accelerates the phenomenon and how often it is some wise, among the ancients, to recommend contraception ... It is true that in 1966 France had no access to this possibility of birth and the United States limiting the debate had just ended before the Supreme Court for married women ...

Well .... And since New York has never had 35 million inhabitants, the United States with 320 million people are still doing as well and approach the 344 mentioned in the novel, the planet actually has 7 billion people, enough to believe that the family planning clinics have served only part of the temperate northern hemisphere, oil continues to flow freely, the raw material to be wasted as never .... A believe that the deadline set by Harry Harrison will not happen ... or it was too close ...