Level 7 (Library of American Fiction) by Mordecai Roshwald
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Book Summary Author: Mordecai Roshwald Editor: David Seed Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2004-05-15 ISBN: 0299200647 Number of pages: 200 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press |
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Book Reviews of the Level 7 (Library of American Fiction)
Customer Review: dated badly.
Summary: 3 Stars
I really wanted to like this one, but the premise of the book is rather dated, very Dr Strangelove with (spoiler warning) the missile command crew and their support staff (and children to be) being forcibly incarcerated in a bunker for 500 years. And they all have stupid names like X-127 instead of real names. And with the exception of a couple of souls, everyone seems quite happy to be there and no one seems at all perturbed that they are locked underground. The characters all act in an extremely unrealistic manner and to cap it all, there is a pre-quel involving visitors from a Martian archaeological expedition (groan). I think I might be over hard on the style of sci-fi from that date because it will inevitably date, but this book could be re-written too much better effect, it could make an excellent film as well in an updated version as there is much to discuss in the premise. I can see the importance of this book in terms of a historical and social capture of a time, and also in the context of awareness raising for the issue (as the author explains in his interesting preface) but I couldn't get away from the dated style. Sorry. :-(