“This year we take our vacation somewhere else. Where is there where Americans aren’t likely to be stoned by a howling mob? Spain, Greece? No, got to be out of range of the stench from the Med.
Looks like we might as well stay home.”

—  John Brunner , book The Sheep Look Up

May “BLANKET”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)

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