"Reddened by haze, the sun was dropping behind a Center, which bulked black against a sky where aircraft moved like glittering midges. The whole horizon was full of such unitized sub-cities and company towers." (I, p. 5)
"Skyscrapers and Centers reared above that hazy dusk, their heights still catching daylight." (II, p. 12)
"Since there was nothing above the house roofs here except some power lines, he could see the sky - red haze, no stars - and the beautiful, arrogant heights of a Center, half a mile or so away, looming over these mean walls." (III, p. 23)
"This must be a bomb-drop district, hastily rebuilt after the war and never improved since, except for the Centers; and they were towns to themselves, of course, where nobody could afford to live who didn't have the skills that an automation economy demanded." (111, pp. 23-24)
OK. I was wondering what "Centers" were but, by copying out enough quotations, I found out and also learned that "haze" was a subsidiary theme.
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Kaor, Paul!
THE BYWORLDER also shows us a high tech "high world" and the mass unemployment caused by many people in the "byworld" not having the skills needed for a high tech society. An idea which goes back in Anderson's works as early as "Quixote
And The Windmill."
Sean
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