By the writer of Rosemary’s Baby, a horrifying journey into a future only Ira Levin could imagine.

Considered among the great dystopian novels-alongside Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World-Ira Levin’s terrifying glimpse in to the future is constantly on the fascinate readers even forty years after publication.

The story is defined inside a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity may be the defining feature; there is only one language and everything ethnic groups have already been about This Ideal Time eugenically merged into one competition called “The Family members.” The world is ruled with a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human being on the top of earth in check. People are continually drugged through regular injections in order to never realize their potential as humans, but will stay happy and cooperative. They may be told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. Even the essential facts of nature are subject to UniComp’s will-men do not develop facial hair, females do not develop chest, and it only rains during the night.

Having a vision as frightening as any in the annals from the science fiction genre, This Ideal Day is one of Ira Levin`s most haunting novels.