Past Master

Lafferty, R. A. Past Master. New York: Ace, 1968.

A dual dystopia set in the mechanically dead golden cities of Astrobe and in the seeming "cancers" on Astrobe: the vast slum cities of Cathead and the Barrio. See for "programmed people" and for a rather idiosyncratic reading of Sir Thomas More's Utopia. See under Literary Criticism the Clockwork Worlds[] essay by W. Hardesty.