The Dreaming Earth Author:John Brunner A daring novel of mankind's strange and startling destiny. Hers is a novel to equal Arthur Clarke's great work, CHILDHOOD'S END. It tells with frightening clarity of a desperately stricken earth-wracked by overpopulation and plagued by famine and despair. It tells,too, of a new breed of men and women-21st century lotus eaters caught up in a myst... more »erious euphoria which will ultimately threaten all life on this planet; the drug-induced world of "happy dreams"« less