There are seven billion-plus humans crowding the surface of 21st century Earth. It is an age of intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelic drugs, politics conducted by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes ...all the hysteria of a dangerously overcrowded world, portrayed in a dazzlingly inventive style.
- ISBN10 1857988361
- ISBN13 9781857988369
- Publish Date 12 August 1999 (first published 12 July 1978)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 July 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gollancz
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 672
- Language English