Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March of that year, a newly-reconstituted German army marched into the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland and the government foisted the first of two four-year plans on its inhabitants to transfer control of economic life to the state in order that a condition of national war readiness might be achieved...
...panel of experts outlined "a new link bridging the gap between the animate and the inanimate, which offers evidence for the existence of a twilight zone between living and non-living matter inhabited by shadowy creatures, some of which produce deadly diseases, while others aid man to combat diseases...
...novel's simple plot concerns a return to the O-Zone with Theroux's version of Tom Swift as technical consultant. A group of entrepreneurs wants to construct an artificial mountain to change the region's climate. Fizzy is captured by aliens, Daniel Boone throwbacks, who instruct him in the manly arts of survival and replace his prejudices with a sense of pride and possibility...
...real aliens of the book are the Owners, cut off from themselves. Yet hope glimmers. Hooper's voyeuristic passion is transformed when he brings his nymphet back from the O-Zone and she proves intelligent and sensitive. Moura gets to unmask her stud, thereby changing loneliness into at least a healthy lust. Masks are also important to Theroux's satiric intentions. "You can get away with anything in a mask," says Hooper, as he watches a woman strutting in the latest fashion: a face covering, some chains, sandals and nothing else...
Theroux, always adept at following literary form, sticks to the basic rules of science fiction. The first is never invent the future, just extrapolate the present. The second: the hardware and social order should always be more impressive than the quality of life. O-Zone's projection of industrial society as a spreading toxic stain is not farfetched. Neither is its assumption of a self-sealed managerial elite, the establishment of airport- like security in the streets or even the possibility of renewal...