"This Crowded Earth" Review

Ahead of its time in 1958, this novel's central theme of
overpopulation is a crisis-du-jour whose time has come and
gone. However, Bloch brings much more than that to the story: a very
plausible portrayal of humanity trying to preserve the appearance of
normality in the face of impending doom, unintended consequences to
even the best-intentioned social engineering, and a judgement passed
on the entire science fiction genre, which make the novel well worth
the read. This is the first Bloch novel I've read, though his is a
very well-known author and I have watched movies and television he has
scripted (Psycho, Star Trek's Catspaw). Read 2010/7/7.