The Sheep Look Up
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The Sheep Look Up
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Narrated by:
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Stefan Rudnicki
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Written by:
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John Brunner
About this listen
In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. The infant mortality rate is soaring, and birth defects, new diseases, and physical ailments of all kinds abound. The water is undrinkable - unless you're poor and have no choice. Large corporations fighting over profits from gas masks, drinking water, and clean food tower over an ineffectual, corrupt government.
Environmentalist Austin Train is on the run. The "trainites", a group of violent environmental activists, want him to lead their movement; the government wants him dead; and the media demands amusement. But Train just wants to survive.
More than a novel of science fiction, The Sheep Look Up is a skillful and frightening political and social commentary that takes its place next to other remarkable works of dystopian literature, such as Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwell's 1984.
©2014 John Brunner (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Skyboat Media, Inc.What listeners say about The Sheep Look Up
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 2018-06-04
It was a pretty good book
The book was a awesome look into a fictional alternate earth and I for one throughly enjoyed the book. The only reason why i did not give it 5 stars is it took way too long to kick off the story and not only that but some of the contents were very disturbing like I was disturbed when the baby was placed in the oven the first time. But then when Jeanie's baby was cooked in the womb I was like " What the hell is this person a canniball or something" I was really annoyed more than i should be because it is just a book
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- A.
- 2019-12-09
Audio can be difficult to follow
The small range of narrator voices, combined with the style of the book (multiple splits throughout chapters, sometimes splitting after a few sentences over and over), the narrative can be hard to follow.
Too often I was confused as to if the scene changed or if someone was thinking or talking.
Aside from that the book is a recommend. Through it might be better to pick up a physical copy over the audiobook.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- 2020-03-07
A chillingly accurate depiction of coming dystopia
Though written in the 70s, Brenner depicts a world that sounds all-too-familiar to scientifically- and politically-informed ears today. A divided American culture--split between the complacently ignorant and the revolting class, are both forced to bear the crushing weight of climate disaster and spreading disease in a 'future' America run by oligarchs.
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