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Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. "First Edition", "Copyright © 1974", LCCN 74-8513, and ISBN on its copyright page, with publisher's original "$6.50" price and "A HOLT REINFORCED EDITION" on its jacket's front flap. This book is unmarked and in near fine condition, marred only by some traces of wear on the bottom edges of its covers, plus very slight "lean". Its binding is sound. Covers are otherwise unworn. Pages are unmarked and unworn. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is also in near fine condition: bright, whole, and unmarked, with traces of wear on its spine ends, but otherwise unworn. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble cushion, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description.

Etat : GOOD. First printing. An anthology of nine provocative stories about urban life in the future - includes Enchanted Village by A.E. Van Vogt, The Deeps by Keith Roberts, The Menace from Earth by Robert Heinlein, Metropolitan Nightmare by Stephen Vincent Benet, The Luckiest Man in Denv by C.M. Kornbluth, The City That Loves You by Raymond Banks, The Place Where Chicago Was by James Harmon, Natural State by Damon Knight, and Plenitude by Will Worthington. 245 pp. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dj. sunning to the spine of the dj as is common with this title.).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Eight stories by A. E. van Vogt, Keith Roberts, Robert A. Heinlein and others, and "Metropolitan Nightmare," a poem by Stephen Vincent Benet about metal-eating bugs. Most of the extrapolated future cities on Earth are unpleasant, if not dystopian. Kornbluth's "The Luckiest Man in Denv," depicting an authoritarian dystopia, is listed in Sargent. The longest story, "Natural State" a novella by Damon Knight expanded into a novel, MASTERS OF EVOLUTION (1959), depicts isolated post-nuclear war cities at war with the prosperous surrounding countryside using chemical and bioengineered weapons. Also present are "The City That Loves You" by Raymond Banks, a city run by a benevolent computer, "The Place Where Chicago Was" by James Harmon, a post-nuclear war world government uses mind control to keep the population peaceful, and "Plenitude" by Will Worthington, a creepy SF-horror story, reminiscent of Forester's cautionary tale "The Machine Stops." Despite the bad title and marketing to a YA audience (McHargue is a well-regarded writer of children's books), a useful anthology of cites you mostly wouldn't want to live in. Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 212; pp. 234-5. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 243. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some fade to spine panel. (#160261).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Eight stories by A. E. van Vogt, Keith Roberts, Robert A. Heinlein and others, and "Metropolitan Nightmare," a poem by Stephen Vincent Benet about metal-eating bugs. Most of the extrapolated future cities on Earth are unpleasant, if not dystopian. Kornbluth's "The Luckiest Man in Denv," depicting an authoritarian dystopia, is listed in Sargent. The longest story, "Natural State" a novella by Damon Knight expanded into a novel, MASTERS OF EVOLUTION (1959), depicts isolated post-nuclear war cities at war with the prosperous surrounding countryside using chemical and bioengineered weapons. Also present are "The City That Loves You" by Raymond Banks, a city run by a benevolent computer, "The Place Where Chicago Was" by James Harmon, a post-nuclear war world government uses mind control to keep the population peaceful, and "Plenitude" by Will Worthington, a creepy SF-horror story, reminiscent of Forester's cautionary tale "The Machine Stops." Despite the bad title and marketing to a YA audience (McHargue is a well-regarded writer of children's books), a useful anthology of cites you mostly wouldn't want to live in. Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 212; pp. 234-5. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 243. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#173358).