![]() The more cynical commentator might observe that this is the world born at the beginning of the 2020s, if we broaden out ‘television’ to include other media such as ‘the internet’ in the pantheon of ways-of-keeping-a-population-passive-and-easy-to-control. Crime, it turns out, has been largely eradicated, because everyone remains indoors all night, glued to their television sets. We are told that this is one of only two police cars in the whole city of three million people there had been three police cars until an election the year before, when it had been decided that there was no need for so many as three. A police car stops to ask Leonard who he is and what he does for a living. We learn that it is his habit to do this every night, sometimes staying out until midnight before he returns home.Īs the story progresses, it emerges that this sort of behaviour – staying in all night, every night, and consuming hours of television without ever venturing out – has become not only common, or normalised, but, in effect, the law. He is the only person out on the street at night, because everyone else is indoors, watching their television sets all night. A man named Leonard Mead, who later identifies himself as a writer, is walking the deserted streets of a city. ![]() ![]() The story takes place on one night in November 2053. ![]()
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