Series
Urban Monad
Robert Silverberg · 1 novel · 1 novella · 3 novelettes · 2 short stories · 1970–1971
Robert Silverberg's Urban Monad sequence, gathered into the fix-up novel The World Inside (serialized in Galaxy in 1970-71 and a Hugo finalist Silverberg declined), is set inside towering high-rise arcologies -- urban monads -- built to house a wildly overpopulated future Earth. Moving between residents of one tower, the linked stories examine a tightly regulated, sexually permissive society engineered to cope with constant population growth, and the discontent that surfaces underneath it.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Urban Monad at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s7
Shape
1 novel · 1 novella · 3 novelettes · 2 short stories
1 author
reads like:science fictionclass conflictbig cityfar futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 7 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- We Are Well Organizeddarkest · calmest
- All the Way Up, All the Way Downbrightest · most intense