How do you write a novel that successfully conveys a sense of overpopulation? Perhaps a stochastic structure (if a novel structure can be stochastic) is the only real way to do it. This novel, from the late 1960s, uses the population projections of the mid-century, and without the knowledge of upcoming breakthroughs in agriculture, to assume that the passing of the population past seven billion would spin the world into a kind of geopolitical turmoil. It did, of course, but with the fall of the […]