This Perfect Day
by Ira Levin
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appears in Dystopian, Science Fiction, and Science.
Considered one of the great dystopian novels_x0097_alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World_x0097_Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers even forty years after publication.The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only on...
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appears in Dystopian, Science Fiction, and Science.
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