num_pages: 319
description: Checkmate in paradise.Ciudad de Vados was a Latin-American showplace, a paradise...a flourishing supercity designed and run nearly to perfection.But not quite. They had a traffic problem.Boyd Hakluyt didn't understand why, but he had been brought in to analyze the situation and to straighten it out - or so he thought. But when he attempted to get anything done, nothing worked right, and everyone suddenly became evasive.That's when he realized the city's traffic problems were the least of his worries. Somehow his every move was being dictated by somebody else. He was being controlled as if he were merely a piece in a chess game - an expendable piece, at that. Then suddenly Boyd concluded he had become part of a fiendish living game, playing for his life on THE SQUARES OF THE CITY.
language: English
title: The Squares of the City
titlecomplete: The Squares of the City
genres: Politics, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Chess, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 640
awards: awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Del Rey / Ballantine