The State of Siege

by C.P. Snow

First edition. Good+. Book is very good with no notable flaw. Generally sharp, well-preserved jacket has a few smudges/marks on the front and light rubbing on both sides.

50 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Known British scientist Charles Percy Snow, baron Snow of Leicester, wrote especially his 11-volume series Strangers and Brothers (1940-1970).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._P._Snow

Reviews

[Katrinka]

The bookstore mistakenly sent me this one instead of Janet Frame's A State of Siege; thought I might as well read it—but now I'm doubly disappointed I didn't get the right book.

[Buck Wilde · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know if I'd call it "the Most Urgent Crisis in World History", since he was just complaining about how nobody's neighborly anymore. I get what he was going for, people keep to themselves, they don't know the people they live next to, and if something weird is going on in the street they just draw the curtains and hope it goes away. "As though under siege". He pins it on the population explosion, and then indicates that soon there'll be too many people and we'll all die forever. He predicted that within 30 years. The book's 50 years old.

Ah well.