{"first_publish_date": "1994", "title": "Only forward", "covers": [372870], "lc_classifications": ["CPB Box no. 1927 vol. 9"], "key": "/works/OL1841600W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL220575A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "dewey_number": ["823.914"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["English Science fiction", "Science fiction, English", "Twenty-first century", "Fiction", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "Fiction, general"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "tark lives in Colour, a neighbourhood whose inhabitants like to be co-ordinated with their surroundings \u2013 a neighbourhood where spangly purple trousers are admired by the walls of buildings as you pass them. Close by is Sound, where you mustn\u2019t make any, apart from one designated hour a day when you can scream your lungs raw. Then there\u2019s Red \u2013 get off at Fuck Station Zero if you want to see a tactical nuclear battle recreated as a sales demonstration.\r\n\r\nStark has friends in Red, which is just as well because Something is about to happen. And when a Something happens it\u2019s no good chanting \u2018Duck and cover\u2019 while cowering in a corner, because a Something is always from the past, Stark\u2019s past, and it won\u2019t go away until you face it full on."}, "latest_revision": 14, "revision": 14, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:27:10.587406"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-08-05T05:08:12.882330"}}