TY - ABST T1 - Justice City Y1 - 1994 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Thriller set in a dystopian penal system of the future.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nomansland Y1 - 1993 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia--a society which is getting rid of men by ensuring that there are no boy babies.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scudder's Game Y1 - 1988 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Radical reduction in population based on a device that weakened sperm while giving control over one’s orgasm. Behind the eutopia created is a dystopia that controls the social system.

PB - Kerosina Books CY - Worcester Park, Surrey, Eng. U2 -

Illus. Keith Roberts

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bender, Fenugreek, Slatterman and Mupp" Y1 - 1980 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) ED - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a technological world which tries and fails to make humans feel useful.

JF - Interfaces PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Windows Y1 - 1979 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1974 Compton which begins with the final words of the previous book. The reporter, who blinded himself in the previous book as the only way to stop broadcasting, becomes involved in a plot, which is ultimately defeated, to overthrow governments.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe Y1 - 1974 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Media dystopia in which a reporter has his eyes replaced with TV cameras which transmits everything he sees. His first assignment is to film Katherine Mortenhoe’s death in a world where disease no longer exists, and the title of the TV series is “The Unsleeping Eye”. A film entitled Death Watch directed by Bernard Tavernier (b. 1941) was produced in 1980.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980 with an "Introduction" by Susan Wood (v-xix); as Death Watch. London: Magnum Books, 1981. U.S. ed. as The Unsleeping Eye. New York: DAW Books, 1974. Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1980; and under the original title New York: New York Review Books, 2016 with an “Introduction” by Jeff Vandermeer (vii-xii). .

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Electric Crocodile Y1 - 1970 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with constant surveillance. Almost everyone is bugged, and people have to use jammers to have a private conversation.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Steel Crocodile. New York: Ace Books, 1970.

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U.S. ed. as The Steel Crocodile.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Farewell, Earth's Bliss Y1 - 1966 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with Mars as a penal colony.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Tandem, 1971.

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