num_pages: 140
description: 1. First edition book description:A rash of suicides has sent shock waves through a tightly organized society that officially frowns on such an act but privately makes it unavoidable. How else could people endure in a world carefully calculated to rob its citizens of self-respect and dignity? One man struggles against the overpowering temptation to take his own life, because he realizes that he must survive or else give the strange unseen rulers final victory.The characters in this extraordinary novel of the future share a host of psychiatric disturbances. One is haunted by strange visions in the night; another can reach sexual climax only in the confines of an old jalopy; others share schizophrenic fantasies that give frightening insight into the nature of their anguish."Guernica Night" is for those readers who won't turn from the possibility of another Armageddon; for those readers who don't flinch from meeting head-on insane people performing insane acts in a world in which madness has taken over; for those readers who see some truth in all of this.2. Amazon book descriptionWho can resist the Final Trip?Earth in the twenty-third century is adorned with corpses as suicides ravage a dehumanised population, compelled to live, or merely exist, in segregated complexes. Despite the technical wizardry of the Church of the Epiphany and the dictates of the unseen rulers, more and more people seek the ultimate exit. One man probes the social disease, but he too fights that dreadful and permanent seduction. If he succumbs, the victory of the Oppressors would be complete
language: English
title: Guernica Night
titlecomplete: Guernica Night
genres: Science Fiction
ratings_count: 74
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Novel
publisher: Bobbs-Merrill