The World Inside

Set in the year 2381, this science fiction novel explores a future Earth where the population has reached seventy five billion people living inside massive three kilometer high skyscrapers called Urban Monads. Society operates under a philosophy of total sexual freedom and mandatory high reproduction rates where privacy does not exist. The narrative follows several inhabitants whose lives intersect as they navigate the extreme conformity, mandatory happiness, and strict social controls of their enclosed world.

by Robert Silverberg

Millington · First published 1971 · 185 pages