Is it possible to stop the Western world from going downhill? What will happen to humanity in the near future, and does it have a future? America, 80s of the twentieth century. The greed of the largest corporations has led to irreparable pollution of water, air, and food. The population suffers from malnutrition and all kinds of diseases, and every day there are more and more unemployed on the streets. The media feed the people with fairy tales about cohesion, unity and a bright future, but there are fewer and fewer people who believe in all this every day. Research scientist Austin Train unexpectedly becomes a symbol of the struggle of ordinary Americans for their rights. In the 1972 dystopian cautionary novel “The Sheep Look Up,” Brunner skillfully reveals all the pain points of globalism, pitting nature and civilized man in a deadly confrontation.