LEVIN, Ira.
This Perfect Day.
New York: Random House , 1970.
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First edition of This Perfect Day; Warmly Inscribed by Ira Levin in the year of publication
First edition of this classic science fiction novel about a technocratic dystopia. Levin won a Prometheus Award in 1992 for this novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "2/19/70 To Evy and Mort, You see, Evy if you were a computer you could pick out the right girl for me...Love always Ira." The recipients, Evy and Mort Barrow were close friends of Levin. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate of the recipient to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Photograph by Bernard Gotfryd. Rare and desirable signed.
This Perfect Day (1970) by Ira Levin is a dystopian novel that imagines a technologically controlled global society in which individuality has been systematically erased in the name of equality and stability. In a world governed by a vast central computer known as UniComp, citizens are medicated, monitored, and assigned their roles from birth, insulated from conflict but deprived of choice. Through the awakening of its protagonist, who begins to question the rigid structures of conformity, Levin explores themes of free will, identity, and the cost of engineered perfection. Blending psychological tension with speculative world-building, the novel offers a stark meditation on the dangers of benevolent authoritarianism and the human desire for autonomy.
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