Level 7
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed , price clipped
Markings: Remainder mark
A chilling work of Cold War dystopian fiction, Level 7 chronicles the final days of humanity through the diary of a military officer known only as X-127, a soldier stationed seven levels underground in a bunker designed to survive nuclear war. Roshwald constructs a harrowing, claustrophobic narrative in which X-127 is ordered to push the buttons that will launch nuclear missiles, setting off a chain of mutual destruction that annihilates civilization above ground. Written with stark, unsettling restraint, the novel presents its apocalyptic horror not through melodrama but through the chillingly mundane voice of a man conditioned to follow orders without question, illustrating how bureaucratic obedience and technological detachment can lead to the end of the world. First published in 1959 at the height of the nuclear arms race, the work remains a devastating anti-war parable that argues with quiet ferocity against the dehumanizing logic of mutually assured destruction. Its spare, diary-entry prose style gives it an intimacy that makes the unfolding catastrophe all the more unbearable, cementing its place as one of the most powerful and underappreciated works of twentieth-century speculative fiction.
Author: Mordecai Roshwald
Format: Hardback
Published: 1959, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Genre: Science fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed , price clipped
Markings: Remainder mark
A chilling work of Cold War dystopian fiction, Level 7 chronicles the final days of humanity through the diary of a military officer known only as X-127, a soldier stationed seven levels underground in a bunker designed to survive nuclear war. Roshwald constructs a harrowing, claustrophobic narrative in which X-127 is ordered to push the buttons that will launch nuclear missiles, setting off a chain of mutual destruction that annihilates civilization above ground. Written with stark, unsettling restraint, the novel presents its apocalyptic horror not through melodrama but through the chillingly mundane voice of a man conditioned to follow orders without question, illustrating how bureaucratic obedience and technological detachment can lead to the end of the world. First published in 1959 at the height of the nuclear arms race, the work remains a devastating anti-war parable that argues with quiet ferocity against the dehumanizing logic of mutually assured destruction. Its spare, diary-entry prose style gives it an intimacy that makes the unfolding catastrophe all the more unbearable, cementing its place as one of the most powerful and underappreciated works of twentieth-century speculative fiction.