The world of the future built its policies on public-opinion samplings! But Rien Reactions, Inc. realized that old-fashioned public-opinion polls were too slow, inaccurate and unstable on which to base a conforming society. So scientific researchers Morton Lynch, Hannon Fuller, and Douglas Hall built a total environment simulator, Simulacron-3, into which they fed subjective analogs and got human reaction results. But Lynch disappeared, Fuller was murdered, and Hall was charged with both crimes! Then Hall discovered that his world was nothing but a total environment simulator for a governing world as large as his was to his own miniature simulator world—and that he was marked for extinction!
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Paperback, good condition. Some wear to cover edges and corners, creasing on spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. School library stamp on copyright page.
Published by Sphere Books, 1970 (first published 1964). First paperback edition.