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Interestingly, I had the exact opposite reaction - I enjoyed the writing itself, but didn't find the premise all that interesting.

My friend, we exist at opposite ends of a spectrum ha

Honestly I'm just tired of the doom and gloom. I should probably keep in mind this was written in 1950.

Try some Arthur C Clarke, less doom and gloom

his magnum opus Explode Eath and most of humanity, because of bureocracy apathy, in the first 10 pages. ...Oh I see now. nvm.

Childhood's End by Clarke is quite high on my list of grim endings for the human race