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Level 7 / Mordecai Roshwald ; edited and with a new foreword by David Seed.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roshwald, Mordecai, 1921-
- Series:
- Library of American fiction.
- Library of American fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Subterranean--Fiction.
- Civilization, Subterranean.
- Life on other planets--Fiction.
- Life on other planets.
- Nuclear bomb shelters--Fiction.
- Nuclear bomb shelters.
- Underground areas--Fiction.
- Underground areas.
- Nuclear warfare--Fiction.
- Nuclear warfare.
- Physical Description:
- xlix, 210 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Level seven
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the "Push Buttons, " a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country's deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating attack and to be self-sufficient for five hundred years. Selected according to a psychological profile that assures their willingness to destroy all life on Earth, those who are sent down may never return. Originally published in 1959, and with over 400, 000 copies sold, this powerful dystopian novel remains a horrific vision of where the nuclear arms race may lead, and is an affirmation of human life and love. Level 7 merits comparison to Huxley's A Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 and should be considered a must-read by all science fiction fans.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction by David Seed
- Looking Back in Wonder: The Author's Reminiscences and Reflections
- Preface by The Martian Institute for Archaeological Excavations in the Solar System
- Level 7
- Appendix A: Training the Nuclear Warrior: A Manual for Level 7
- Appendix B: The Politics of Ratology (a fantasy)
- Further Reading.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9786612424229
- 9781282424227
- 128242422X
- 9780299200633
- 0299200639
- OCLC:
- 560690568
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