Amazon.co.uk: Futuretrack 5: Robert Westall: Books

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: CollinsVoyager (1 Jan 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0007126913
ISBN-13: 978-0007126910
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.2 cm

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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 403,195 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Britain is divided into Zones and castes to which men and women are pitilessly allocated at the end of their schooling. Whether crazed proles, bourgeois Ests or arrogant Techs, all are ultimately pawns of the computer that governs it all. One boy penetrates the conspiracy that governs the nation.

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The best young adult science fiction novel...ever!, 21 Nov 2001

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I grew up with this book and after reading it half a dozen times at least I love it still. Obvious inspiration from classic science fiction make it all the better to read, and even study - it stood up to the critically acclaimed wieght of Orwell's '1984' and Bradbury's 'Farenheit 451' - books at the very top of their Genre, when I wrote on all three in my last year of secondary school. Kit, the brillliant, volatile and dashing main character, has more depth than your average SF hero, possibly because this book is aimed at teenagers and we aren't really satisfied with just good ideas and concepts. That said, the good ideas and concepts are there in droves, some of them very original. Whole cities being turned into squalid ghettos for the poorer classes, the separation of the very rich from the very poor becoming even more pronounced than it already is today - these ideas may not be entirley new. But Scott-Astbury and his mysterious plans for the north which dominate Kit's quest...I can't possibly reveal. But they are certainly original. Original and barbaric and morally wrong and sick and-...just go thee hither and read! Like so many books by Westall, it should be a classic of our time, but instead has been out of print for years. Take this opportunity to get it before it disappears again!

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A near-future anti-utopia - for all ages!, 6 Feb 2001

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This review is from: Futuretrack 5 (Plus) (Hardcover)

I first read this book when I was about 13 or so, and did not really understand it (not all at least). Now, ten years later, I read it for the third time, and I can say it's excellent reading. A touch of 1984, a bit of Brave New World... The UK is ruled by a totalitarian system, shutting of the big cities from the rest of the country, controlling them with an effective mixture o