{"product_id":"9780575104341","title":"Ladies from Hell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLadies from Hell\u003c\/i\u003e contains five long stories. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Shack at Great Cross Halt\" describes a Britain dominated by motorways, juggernauts and a tyranny, in which the unfortunates of society eke out a miserable existence scavenging items that fall off lorries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Ministry of Children\" shows comprehensive schools having become terrifying battlegrounds dominated by vicious gangs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Big Fans\" concerns an experiment in wind-powered electricity which accidentally unleashes an apocalyptic storm of effects. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Our Lady of Destruction\" ironically depicts a future in which a Stalinist British government taxes 'non-productive' people (i.e. artists) at over 100% and assigns them individual Overseers to regulate their work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Missa Privata\" shows an opera singer in a communist-dominated Britain making a defiant individual gesture which will bring about her own ruin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  These are not stories of spaceships and alien worlds; rather they are studies of imminent social change, written out of passionate concern about the directions in which our society may be heading - stories, in fact, in the great Orwellian tradition. Most importantly, they are stories about people: believable, defiant individuals struggling against oppressive forces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Group, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104680493296,"sku":"9780575104341","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780575104341_p0.jpg?v=1763719945","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780575104341","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}