Bitter pill
β Jordan Castillo Price
π Fiction
π
2020
π JCP Books LLC
π English
β 148 KB
PsyCop 11
β¦ LIBER β¦
The Bitter Pill
β Scribed by A. Bertram Chandler
- Publisher
- F+W Media
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 105 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781440553158
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A Taut Story of Terrifying Credibility
The Bitter Pill is a novel of the near future as seen from 1974, extrapolating contemporary political and sociological trends to develop with frightening plausibility to growing importance of youth as a political power.
To Paul Clayton, obscure shipping clerk, his forty-fifth birthday was not an occasion for celebration. It meant the achievement of status of Senior Citizen, and with it several dubious privileges-not leas to of which was voluntary euthanasia, facilitated by the government issue suicide pill. Those who changed their minds, once they had broken the capsule containing the lethal pill, faced the prospect of forced labor camps in the Australian desert of the penal colony on Mars, where convicts toiled to make more space fit for Earth's over-spilling populations.
Under the supervision of the corrupt and brutal Mars Corps, Clayton crosses paths again with others he once knew on distant Earth. They find...
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