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H. Beam Piper · 1953

This 1953 science fiction novel, serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, imagines a future society where reading has been abolished and literacy is controlled by a powerful fraternal order. It follows a businessman and senator whose family becomes entangled in the conflict over whether book-learning should return.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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