{"covers": [958487, 11523221], "first_publish_date": "1972", "key": "/works/OL3521965W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2644956A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subjects": ["Pollution", "Fiction", "Fiction in English", "Science fiction", "Climatic changes", "Dystopias", "Fiction, science fiction, general"], "title": "The Sheep Look Up", "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. The infant mortality rate is soaring, and birth defects, new diseases, and physical ailments of all kinds abound. The water is undrinkable\u2014unless you\u2019re poor and have no choice. Large corporations fighting over profits from gas masks, drinking water, and clean food tower over an ineffectual, corrupt government.\r\n \r\nEnvironmentalist Austin Train is on the run. The \u201ctrainites,\u201d a group of violent environmental activists, want him to lead their movement; the government wants him dead; and the media demands amusement. But Train just wants to survive."}, "latest_revision": 15, "revision": 15, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T03:46:01.578043"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-11T08:29:22.792933"}}