BOOK: Off the road by Bawden

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Bawden, Nina._Off the road_,1998 [0-395-91321-7]
The story takes place in 2040 where a family is taking grandfather
to "final security".  On the way grandfather goes through the
electric fence to the wild outside -- away from a world of no books,
a structured, controlled life.  Tom goes to catch him and finds
another society living in pre-industrial farm life.  The grandfather is
automatically allowed to stay but Tom has to pretend.  After going
through several adventures, Tom is caught and is finally allowed to
stay but decides he wants to go back with a girl he's met there to
spread the word of what it really is like in the wilds.  We find out at
the end that the electric fence isn't really to keep the wilds out but
to keep the people inside so they don't get out to the wilds.  An
interesting twist of plot in this 189 page book which reminded me of
a mixture of Sang Spell, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451.

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