====== This Crowded Earth ======

Ahead of its time in 1958, this novel's central theme of overpopulation is a crisis-du-jour whose time has come and gone. However, Bloch brings much more than that to the story: a very plausible portrayal of humanity trying to preserve the appearance of normality in the face of impending doom, unintended consequences to even the best-intentioned social engineering, and a judgement passed on the entire science fiction genre, which make the novel well worth the read. This is the first Bloch novel I've read, though his is a very well-known author and I have watched movies and television he has scripted (//Psycho//, Star Trek's //Catspaw//). Read 2010/7/7. 

  * Robert Bloch. This Crowded Earth. Amazing Science Fiction Stories. October 1958. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25776/25776-h/25776-h.htm accessed 2010/7/8.

===== BibTeX entry =====

<code latex>
@ONLINE{Bloch:1958,
title = {This Crowded Earth},
author = {Robert Bloch},
year = 1958,
month = October,
publisher = {Amazing Science Fiction Stories},
url = http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25776/25776-h/25776-h.htm,
note = {Project Gutenberg e-book; read 2010/7/7}
}
</code>

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