Fantastic copy...my husband was overjoyed as he cannot even get this book in the library...great xmas present and excellent condition!

I was lucky enough to have found Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar a few weeks ago and enjoyed it so much I looked around for The Sheep Look Up. Wow. How could I have missed reading this classic from over 30 years ago? There are many great reviews of this book here on amazon that acknowledge both the relevance and power of Brunner's vision. It is a more depressing and horrific book to read then a typical genre book due to the convincing portrayal of our culturally driven hubris, denial and greed. The American public has a short memory when it comes to their own complicity with corporate and political atrocities and this book serves as a shocking reminder. When I first read reviews of The Sheep Look Up I was afraid that it might be too didactic or too much of a diatribe to be entertaining, but after the first hour or so I was hooked on its gripping human drama. It is a bit challenging to read; there are lots of characters (more like sketches), and Brunner floods the pages with a cacophony of text from press releases, radio announcements, conversations, etc., that takes time for the reader to assimilate. But unlike a lot of other apocalyptic tales, this one is worth your time.

Good to see this book back in print! I have a used hardcover copy that I wouldn't let anyone else get their hands on. Now it is available to everyone so I can say Get your own copy and read it now. The Sheep Look Up is one of the best sci-fi novels as well as one of the best works of fiction I have ever read. Experience it, and read the other reviews here; it's a wild and scary ride.

I devoured all the Brunner I could get my hands on until this one. It changed the way I think, made me look at our society with open eyes. This was in the 70"S. I have bought and given away many copies trying to bring Brunner's vision to others. Glad its back in print. Tired of looking for it in used book stores. Eerie, scary, parallels. PS: Got a hard cover original for Xmas last year.

I can't add much to the other reviews for this book other than to say that this really should be compulsory reading for high school and college students. It's eerily scary and brilliantly written in Brunner's latter-day chop-and-switch style; at first, it's almost impossible to follow, but as one gets further and further into the book, everything starts to hook together in the mind... in a way similar to that which one might experience when trying to assimilate the ideas of a newly-encountered culture. One leaves the book with the feeling that "things really must change" - Brunner certainly makes his point; the book is spare and unsettling, engendering feelings of foreboding and shame... quite unique.