Winner · Philip K. Dick Award 1999
253
by Geoff Ryman
1996 novel by Geoff Ryman
A Bakerloo tube train with no-one standing and no empty seats can carry 252 passengers. The driver makes 253. Each one has a page devoted to them, divided into three sections - what they look like, what they are thinking and inside information - and some of them are going to die.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 356
- ISBN
- 9780006550785
- Subjects
- Fiction, Subways, City and town life, City and town life -- Fiction., Fiction, general, London (england), fiction, Social life and customs
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