A noir detective story and yet so much more. We follow a select cast of characters across the city of New York in 1999 (as imagined by the author in 1966) and are shown an entire planet at the the brink of disaster. This dystopian novel of an overpopulated world running out of resources is more pertinent with every passing year. Harry Harrison may have missed the mark with 1999, but the turmoil he evokes is chillingly familiar today.