A Torre de Cristal by Robert Silverberg5/28/2023 ![]() An Urbmon is divided into 25 self-contained "cities" of 40 floors each, in ascending order of status, with administrators occupying the highest level. Life is now totally fulfilled and sustained within Urban Monads (Urbmons), mammoth thousand-floor skyscrapers arranged in "constellations", where the shadow of one building does not fall upon another. ![]() War, starvation, crime and birth control have been eliminated. ![]() Most of the action occurs in a massive three-kilometer-high city tower called Urban Monad 116. Population growth has skyrocketed due to a quasi-religious belief in human reproduction as the highest possible good. The novel is set on Earth in the year 2381, when the population of the planet has reached 75 billion people. On March 2, 2010, Orb Books published this title as a trade paperback edition. The World Inside was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1972, although Silverberg declined the nomination. The novel originally appeared as a series of shorter works in 19, all but one published in Galaxy, including the Hugo nominated novella "The World Outside". ![]() The World Inside is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, published in 1971. ![]()
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