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Level 7
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 eISBN: 978-0-299-20063-3 | Paper: 978-0-299-20064-0 Library of Congress Classification PS3568.O84154L4 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: Fiction | Life on other planets | Nuclear warfare | Science Fiction | Seed, David See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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Level 7
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
eISBN: 978-0-299-20063-3
Paper: 978-0-299-20064-0
eISBN: 978-0-299-20063-3
Paper: 978-0-299-20064-0
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.
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