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1 sty 2001 · Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Kindle $9.99. Rate this book. This Perfect Day. Ira Levin. 3.99. 10,089 ratings946 reviews. 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."
This Perfect Day is a science fiction novel by American writer Ira Levin, about a technocratic dystopia. [1] Levin won a Prometheus Award in 1992 for this novel. This Perfect Day is one of two Levin novels yet to be adapted to film (the other being Son of Rosemary, the sequel to Rosemary's Baby).
6 sie 2024 · 4.4 1,968 ratings. See all formats and editions. A modern dystopian classic that stands alongside 1984 and Brave New World, Ira Levin’s This Perfect Day is a stunningly prescient work of science fiction that asks what it means to remain human in a world increasingly governed by technology and AI.
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 will remain satisfied and cooperative.
29 maj 2017 · Chip conceives of a plan—destroy the computer, UniComp, by blowing up its refrigeration system. He recruits other incurables to join him, and they make their way to the mainland.
KIRKUS REVIEW. Rosemary hasn't had another baby. Mr. Levin's new novel is as disappointingly lifeless as the life it projects in the universe of tomorrow under the omniscient surveillance of UniComp.
15 lis 2010 · 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...
