A review by markhodderauthor
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin

4.0

Levin is always excellent. Like LOGAN’S RUN, this story concerns a utopian society that turns out to be anything but. A theme for the 60s and 70s. From the 80s onward, we got grungy dystopias, but when I was a kid future societies were overcrowded but antiseptically clean and computer controlled. Levin gives a great and thoroughly enjoyable example here. Amusingly, practically the first thing the protagonists do once free of computer control is... smoke!