Ira Levin This perfect day

`Marvellously entertaining.

A cross between Brave New World and Doctor Who.

' Look Magazine Considered one of the greatest dystopian thrillers ever written, Ira Levin's terrifying glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers forty years after its initial publication.

Set in a seemingly perfect global society, where uniformity is the defining feature, one man leads the resistance against UniComp - a central computer that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check.

All ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into a single race called `The Family', and citizens are continually drugged so that they can never realise their potential as human beings, but will remain pliant and cooperative.

With a vision as frightening as any in the history of the science fiction genre, This Perfect Day is one of Levin's most haunting novels.