The War Against Chaos (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Anita Mason
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—dystopia
- Time of Work: The mid- to late twenty-first century
- Setting: Unspecified
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction
- Subjects: Revolutionaries, Future, Twenty-first century, Blackmail, Corporations, Radiation, Subterranean or underground regions, Nuclear energy or power plants
- Locales: Fictional planets
The Plot
In the process of razing several buildings to make way for more warehouses for contraband materials, the Company accidentally burns an old bookseller to death. Jacobs, an associate near the top of the Company’s corporate ladder, knows of the accident and is blackmailed by Detective Koberg, a corrupt police officer, who has it in his power to ruin Jacobs. Hare is a lowly clerk who copies the Company’s steady flow of misinformation and is transferred to another department each time he figures out the filing system of his current department. He becomes Jacobs’...
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