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Author Roshwald, Mordecai, 1921-2015

Title Level 7 / Mordecai Roshwald ; edited and with a new foreword by David Seed
Published Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xlix, 210 pages)
Series Library of American fiction
Library of American fiction.
Contents Introduction by David Seed; Looking Back in Wonder: The Author's Reminiscences and Reflections; Preface by The Martian Institute for Archaeological Excavations in the Solar System; Level 7; Appendix A: Training the Nuclear Warrior: A Manual for Level 7; Appendix B: The Politics of Ratology (a fantasy); Further Reading
Summary Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the Push Buttons, a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country's deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating attack and to be self-sufficient for 500 years. Selected according to a psychological profile that assures their willingness to destroy all life on Earth, those who are sent down may never return
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Subject Civilization, Subterranean -- Fiction
Life on other planets -- Fiction
Nuclear bomb shelters -- Fiction
Underground areas -- Fiction
Nuclear warfare -- Fiction
FICTION -- Science Fiction -- General.
Civilization, Subterranean
Life on other planets
Nuclear bomb shelters
Nuclear warfare
Underground areas
Genre/Form War stories
War stories
Science fiction
Fiction
Science fiction.
War stories.
Science fiction.
Form Electronic book
Author Seed, David.
ISBN 9780299200633
0299200639
9786612424229
6612424222
Other Titles Level seven