“Until last year, although this town was barely fifty miles from Denver, the road had been bad and only a handful of visitors had chanced on it. The increasing tendency for people to take mountain vacations, however, since the sea had become too filthy to be tolerable, could not be ignored. The road now was excellent and the area had exploded.”

— John Brunner , book The Sheep Look Up

January “SNOW JOB”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)

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