The Garbage World
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the grimy, refuse-strewn depths of a future civilization, The Garbage World plunges readers into a society built upon the discarded remnants of a decadent interstellar empire — a world where the lowest of the low are tasked with processing the waste of humanity's brightest and most powerful, and where one man's desperate struggle for dignity ignites a revolution no one saw coming. Charles Platt constructs a visceral, satirical vision of class warfare and ecological collapse, set against the backdrop of a distant asteroid used as a cosmic dumping ground, where the inhabitants are as forgotten and expendable as the refuse that surrounds them. Platt, a key figure in the British New Wave science fiction movement and a longtime contributor to the legendary New Worlds magazine, brings a sharp, cynical wit and an unflinching eye for social inequality to this early work. The Garbage World stands as a compelling artifact of 1960s speculative fiction — a era defined by its willingness to weaponize science fiction as social commentary — and challenges the reader to question who, in any civilization, truly gets left behind. For those who dare to sift through the wreckage, the treasures buried within may prove unsettling.
Author: Charles Platt
Format: Paperback
Genre: Science fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the grimy, refuse-strewn depths of a future civilization, The Garbage World plunges readers into a society built upon the discarded remnants of a decadent interstellar empire — a world where the lowest of the low are tasked with processing the waste of humanity's brightest and most powerful, and where one man's desperate struggle for dignity ignites a revolution no one saw coming. Charles Platt constructs a visceral, satirical vision of class warfare and ecological collapse, set against the backdrop of a distant asteroid used as a cosmic dumping ground, where the inhabitants are as forgotten and expendable as the refuse that surrounds them. Platt, a key figure in the British New Wave science fiction movement and a longtime contributor to the legendary New Worlds magazine, brings a sharp, cynical wit and an unflinching eye for social inequality to this early work. The Garbage World stands as a compelling artifact of 1960s speculative fiction — a era defined by its willingness to weaponize science fiction as social commentary — and challenges the reader to question who, in any civilization, truly gets left behind. For those who dare to sift through the wreckage, the treasures buried within may prove unsettling.