Planet Friedman

In the near future there are no more states or governments: corporations run the world, and the planet has been renamed Friedman, after the economist of the self-regulating market. Money and greed are the only virtues, and solvency decides everything, including where one may live. In wealthy Zone A emotions count as useless ballast and are dampened with drugs, parents and children live apart, books and the internet have been destroyed, and nobody worries about the ecological disaster; the poor Zones B and C are anarchic but emotionally free. When a revolt breaks out, Dr Gerhard Schmidt, a privileged citizen of Zone A, is drawn into the hunt for its elusive leader, Blacktooth, a journey that slowly changes him.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

254 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Politics (assigned by AI)

First published

2012 by Fraktura

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9789532664102 (original)