Player Piano - Tapa blanda

World War Three is over, and llium, New York, is divided into three parts. In the north-west are the scientists, engineers and technocrats who struggle to run society, victims of an insane system of bureaucratised tyranny; in the north-east are the machines and computers which perform all routine manufacturing tasks; and in the south is the area known locally as Homestead, where almost all of the people live. Those with redundant or non-existent skills are forced into the Army or the Reconstruction and Reclamation Corps – known bitterly as the ‘Reeks and Wrecks’. Robbed of their work, they are deprived of everything that makes them dignified and human. But, underneath the surface, the impulse to rebellion seethes...

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