Robert Silverberg takes on a question of ethics in this futuristic novel. What is more important, population control or quality of life? What if technology makes it possible for an infinite number of people to live, but the cost is living in an authoritarian society where life has no meaning and people are forced to live in prison-like conditions?
The World Inside by Robert Silverberg
_Doubleday & Company Inc., Garden City, NY, 1971, book club edition, gutter code C8
-science fiction/novel
-hardcover w/dust jacket
-deckel edged pages
-condition Good+
-cover G+
-dust jacket glossy w/rubbing, light scratching & discoloration/smudging
-dust jacket edges & corners w/light chipping, light creasing & some wear/bottom corners exposed
-dust jacket spine w/light discoloration/head & tail w/curling, chipping & wear
-cloth boards & spine almost like new, front right corners slightly sloped inwards
-binding firmly intact & square but loose
-pages VG+/Ex
-block edges w/light discoloration
-pages otherwise like new