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Commune 2000 A.D.

Commune 2000 A.D.

Bat Hardin: Book 1

Mack Reynolds

Commune 2000 A.D. depicts a North America in which 90 percent of the population is unemployed and on government assistance, and yet everyone leads a comfortable lifestyle, with plenty of food, beautiful spacious housing, efficient public transportation, and an array of electronic devices. Crime and envy are almost entirely eliminated. There is no pollution and the landscape has been restored, with factories and highways underground. Computers and automation make this utopia possible. In fact, every year people take an intelligence/aptitude test, and the government computers select the best individuals for the tiny number of jobs available.

The fact that everyone has a middle class income and lifestyle without working allows them to leave the cities and band together into communes of the like-minded (a commune of homosexuals, a commune of artists, a commune of people who like to get high on drugs every day, etc.) The main character, a graduate student in the social sciences, is tasked by his graduate adviser to write his thesis on the communes, and he travels from commune to commune, interviewing communards and taking notes.

The Towers of Utopia

The Towers of Utopia

Bat Hardin: Book 2

Mack Reynolds

Imagine a future in which the US government builds colossal self-contained cities to house anyone who wishes to live there. it is a virtual paradise except...

SHYLER-DEME IS UNDER SEIGE!

The enemy has no face. It does not show on the scanners. It avoids the world's most sophisticated surveillance system. But it leaves a wake of profitless crime and motiveless murder...

And puts the future of mankind's paradise-on-earth in peril!