Oath of Fealty (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—technocratic
- Time of Work: The near future
- Setting: Los Angeles, California
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Future, California, Los Angeles, West, U.S., Terrorism or terrorists, Utopias
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
The Plot
Todos Santos is an arcology (a word invented to describe the city concept embodied in Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti, built in Arizona) constructed in a burned-out area of Los Angeles’ city slums and bought by financiers in Switzerland. A monolith covering four square miles, more than 1,000 feet high, and housing nearly a quarter of a million people, the technocracy provides everything for its citizens. It is designed as a cooperative in which the residents buy shares in the corporation. Citizens of Todos Santos can meet all their needs within the city limits of the...
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