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In his "Republic" Plato asks a question that forms the core of every dystopian novel, "Can a just person live in an unjust society?" The answer, of course, is "no," not without compromise. For some writers, e.g., Orwell and Huxley, a person who even attempts to be just or to venture even slightly outside the bounds of state-mandated normalcy is crushed. In other stories an unlikely hero arises and helps the world turn brighter (Ayn Rand's preachy and humorless John Galt, for example). Dystopias are not necessarily fantasy worlds, either. Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Maoist China, today's North Korea, other places, are or have been dystopian environments. Writers like Philip Kerr (Bernie Gunther Series), Tom Rob Smith ("Child 44" and the Leo Demidov Series), the great Alexander Solzhenitsyn ("Cancer Ward," "The Inner Circle," many others, ), and Duong Thu Huong ("Memories of a Pure Spring," "Novel Without a Name" other beautifully written books, all about life under Communism in 1970s Vietnam), all evoke and describe the misery that befalls ordinary people, even true believers, who attempt to reconcile honor, truth and justice with the realities of existence in an oppressive, controlling and cruel society.

Ms. Lane takes us to a future plagued with violent weather due to global warming and other ecological and environmental disasters, multiple drug-resistant disease, a corporatist government in which companies do everything from hawking fruit to running the legal system, and a gradually degenerating civilization that cannot withstand the onslaughts of disease and a changing environment. Mankind is split into two factions "humans" who are dark-eyed, and genetic "deviants" with very pale blue eyes. Humans hold the upper positions in the corporatist world; the deviants do the lowest-level work or are relegated to living in shanty towns among the heaps of trash and garbage that lie just outside the human city. We see this world from the perspective of one human family headed by a middle manager at the law corporation. His job, apparently, is to review legal cases to see that they've been properly completed and adjudicated, and that e paperwork is complete. It's tedious and usually boring, but it allows him to live a modestly decent life in a small apartment eating processed food and hoping to raise children who will rise higher than he has in corporate bureaucracy.

In this corporatist dystopia, the world of humans is divided roughly into three tiers or classes, "associates" (lower level workers), middle managers and professionals, and the corporate elite, the class that rules and runs everything and lives in luxury. The city is an enclosed environment. People do wander outdoors but the weather is so bad and can change so dramatically that leaving the tunnels and buildings can be dangerous. There are no more private automobiles; no one is allowed to own pets (except, apparently, the elite); antibiotics have been banned in effort to curb multiple drug resistant diseases; and the "deviants" are on the rise, filled with hatred and resentment toward the "humans."

The travails of this one family bring us into this sad and failing world so convincingly created by Ms. Lane. Don't look for heroes here. There are none. Everything is done on a human dimension, and the decline of this family flows from a chain of events that could befall anyone whose judgment lapses and whose luck evaporates. There's a chilling reality to all this, as well. No one is palpably cruel or evil, but the machinery of the corporate system is nevertheless oppressive, all beings are subject to the needs, decisions and whims of an aloof corporate elite, and human life is subordinate to the corporate machine.

Could this be a glimpse into the future? Perhaps. The world created by Ms., Lane has echoes of worlds we've already known and some that still exist -- Stalinist Sovietism, Maoist China, the current North Korea. I worked at the CDC, a US government agency that employs 11,000 people, almost 6,000 of whom are contractors. The Department of Defense employs some 250,000 contractors, and we've all seen how companies like Blackwater and Halliburton have insinuated themselves into our defense machinery. Corporatist government is a far step from this, but not an unimaginable one. Ms. Lane has given us a glimpse of what could happen. Pray it never does.

The book was a page-turner. I couldn't put it down.


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WorldMart Leigh M Lane 9780615555744 Books Reviews

Leigh M. Lane has created a world that is all too real a possibility (in fact it is starting to happen already). We are introduced to a normal family, husband--working in a job he doesn't really like, wife--doing the same; two kids, son and daughter at prestigious schools.

They live in a world where everything is controlled by corporate and energy sources are low. No lights after 8pm, the only heat comes from a small flame in the middle of a snow filled winter.

As a family they are doing okay until the mother touches a virus tainted business card and the virus takes hold quickly. She is taken to hospital where she dies and the family are given a small box of ashes. They are naturally grief stricken and the husband is given 2 days off work, compliments of the corporation.

But the mother is not dead. She is being held against her will as a Deviant. Deviants are the other humans who did not join the corporation. Corp has reprogrammed Humans (corp controlled people) to be weary of Deviants (non-corp controlled people) because they have smaller brains and blue eyes and are not human.

Mother escapes with the help of deviants and joins their battle against the corporation.

This is a great book that shows the destruction of a family unit. The downward spiral is amazing to witness. The differences between the classes is profound, there is no blurring of the lines. And behind all this is a massive secret that Corp is desperate to keep hidden.

I really did not want this book to end.
The writing is tight and crisp and to the point.
A great find.
World-Mart is the story of a very possible future reality - class segregation, failing energy supplies, food shortages, global warming, anti-biotic resistant viruses and governmental control over every action and choice made in life. Your background, upbringing and ability to follow without questioning dictate whether you thrive or simply survive in the world.

This is a thought-provoking and quite frightening book. I particularly found the idea of euthanasia of the ill and voluntary euthanasia for people who have found themselves, for whatever reason, demoted through the class ranks to be very disturbing and a reflection of the importance we place on bettering or at least maintaining our own statuses in life.

World-Mart also contains some wonderful poetry written by one of the main characters, Shelley, which I found particularly moving.

My only negative with this book was that some scenes played out way too quickly and could have been fleshed-out a little further, particularly to give a little more life to some of the characters. However this does not mean that the characters were flat or one-dimensional, simply that I wished I had gotten a chance to know them better, and particularly to know how the world came to be that of World-Mart.

If I could, I would have given it 4 1/2 stars!
In his "Republic" Plato asks a question that forms the core of every dystopian novel, "Can a just person live in an unjust society?" The answer, of course, is "no," not without compromise. For some writers, e.g., Orwell and Huxley, a person who even attempts to be just or to venture even slightly outside the bounds of state-mandated normalcy is crushed. In other stories an unlikely hero arises and helps the world turn brighter (Ayn Rand's preachy and humorless John Galt, for example). Dystopias are not necessarily fantasy worlds, either. Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Maoist China, today's North Korea, other places, are or have been dystopian environments. Writers like Philip Kerr (Bernie Gunther Series), Tom Rob Smith ("Child 44" and the Leo Demidov Series), the great Alexander Solzhenitsyn ("Cancer Ward," "The Inner Circle," many others, ), and Duong Thu Huong ("Memories of a Pure Spring," "Novel Without a Name" other beautifully written books, all about life under Communism in 1970s Vietnam), all evoke and describe the misery that befalls ordinary people, even true believers, who attempt to reconcile honor, truth and justice with the realities of existence in an oppressive, controlling and cruel society.

Ms. Lane takes us to a future plagued with violent weather due to global warming and other ecological and environmental disasters, multiple drug-resistant disease, a corporatist government in which companies do everything from hawking fruit to running the legal system, and a gradually degenerating civilization that cannot withstand the onslaughts of disease and a changing environment. Mankind is split into two factions "humans" who are dark-eyed, and genetic "deviants" with very pale blue eyes. Humans hold the upper positions in the corporatist world; the deviants do the lowest-level work or are relegated to living in shanty towns among the heaps of trash and garbage that lie just outside the human city. We see this world from the perspective of one human family headed by a middle manager at the law corporation. His job, apparently, is to review legal cases to see that they've been properly completed and adjudicated, and that e paperwork is complete. It's tedious and usually boring, but it allows him to live a modestly decent life in a small apartment eating processed food and hoping to raise children who will rise higher than he has in corporate bureaucracy.

In this corporatist dystopia, the world of humans is divided roughly into three tiers or classes, "associates" (lower level workers), middle managers and professionals, and the corporate elite, the class that rules and runs everything and lives in luxury. The city is an enclosed environment. People do wander outdoors but the weather is so bad and can change so dramatically that leaving the tunnels and buildings can be dangerous. There are no more private automobiles; no one is allowed to own pets (except, apparently, the elite); antibiotics have been banned in effort to curb multiple drug resistant diseases; and the "deviants" are on the rise, filled with hatred and resentment toward the "humans."

The travails of this one family bring us into this sad and failing world so convincingly created by Ms. Lane. Don't look for heroes here. There are none. Everything is done on a human dimension, and the decline of this family flows from a chain of events that could befall anyone whose judgment lapses and whose luck evaporates. There's a chilling reality to all this, as well. No one is palpably cruel or evil, but the machinery of the corporate system is nevertheless oppressive, all beings are subject to the needs, decisions and whims of an aloof corporate elite, and human life is subordinate to the corporate machine.

Could this be a glimpse into the future? Perhaps. The world created by Ms., Lane has echoes of worlds we've already known and some that still exist -- Stalinist Sovietism, Maoist China, the current North Korea. I worked at the CDC, a US government agency that employs 11,000 people, almost 6,000 of whom are contractors. The Department of Defense employs some 250,000 contractors, and we've all seen how companies like Blackwater and Halliburton have insinuated themselves into our defense machinery. Corporatist government is a far step from this, but not an unimaginable one. Ms. Lane has given us a glimpse of what could happen. Pray it never does.

The book was a page-turner. I couldn't put it down.