Charles Vincent De Vet was a U.S. science fiction writer. The greatest part of his oeuvre consist of of short stories appearing in sf magazines and was written in the fifties and early sixties. After a break, De Vet resumed writing in the late eighties.
I really didn't care for this at all. It really was bizarre and it didn't really feel very fun. It seemed to want to teach a lesson on the evils of media (tv specifically) I guess I don't really read scfi or fiction for big over arching lessons. I read it for fun. I was really hoping it would get good. Sadly for me it never did. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. But this is just one guys opinion. Your mileage may very!
Often bad enough to make me cringe, it's still better than one would expect from a Minnesota pharmacist. De Vet was originally a pharmacist, right? Or am I mixing him up with some other science fiction obscurity? Nobody cares.