Make Room! Make Room!

Paperback, 208 pages

English language

Published June 6, 1973 by Berkley.

ISBN:
978-0-425-02390-7
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OCLC Number:
2143338

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3 stars (1 review)

Reprint of the July 1967 Berkley edition with a new cover to coincide with the movie release.

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3 stars

I enjoyed reading this book. It starts off almost as like a detective novel but the intrigue soon dissolves into the background and in the end it is more like a portrait of a possible dystopian future without much of a story. Despite being published in 1966, it successfully predicts the problems we have now of running out of resources. However it blames this squarely on over-population rather than over-consumption and reads like a manifesto for increased access to birth control as the solution. I think this is what dates the book a little because I get the impression that we now have quite good access to birth control and education about that, at least where I live, yet we are still heading towards the catastrophic future predicted in the book. In a way the dystopia in the story seems almost reassuring viewed from a modern perspective where we are …