Charlie Johns has been snatched from his home on 61 North 34th Street and delivered to the strange future world of Ledom. Here, violence is a vague and improbable notion. Technology has triumphed over hunger, overpopulation, pollution, even time and space. But there is a change...
Sturgeon's last full-length novel follows the exploits and discoveries of a young man--Charlie John--transported out of his affluent suburban world of mechanical innovation into an enticing yet unsettling utopia of non-violence. Certain to fascinate all sorts of readers . . .--Kurt...