Dystopian sci-fi (written in 1980; set a few centuries in the future) in which the degraded state of humanity has much to do with its illiteracy, together with a turning away from all kinds of things that are generally valued in a humanistic conception of the world - curiosity, pursuit of new knowledge and experiences, social relations, love - that is now maintained through a regimen of drugs, behaviours and ideologies inculcated by robots that were programmed many generations ago. Poor lonely Spofforth.
(pressed on me by Rob)
(pressed on me by Rob)
