THE JOY MAKERS

by James Gunn

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Portrays a hedonistic yet hellish future that guarantees pleasure -- at a cost. THE JOY MAKERS describes, in Gunn's dark, ponderous, cumulatively impressive manner, a society whose members are controlled by synthetic forms of release that corrode their sense of reality. - John Clute, SFE online . In Earth's future, the

• Binding: Hardcover

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