SEA OF GLASS

by Barry B. Longyear

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987 . Octavo, boards. First edition. Longyear's most powerful novel and one of the grimmest stories of overpopulation ever written. When seven-year-old Thomas Windom's parents are discovered to have committed the crime of having an illegal child in the grossly overpopulated twenty-first century, they are put to death gruesomely on public television, and Thomas is sent to spend the rest

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