{"product_id":"2026200016248-secondhand-the-garbage-world","title":"The Garbage World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nPlatt, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342774247643,"sku":"2026200016248-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9138e000-b016-493f-a4bd-70b3a8323110.png?v=1790049114","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016248-secondhand-the-garbage-world","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}