The Mechanical Hive: Urbmon 116 as the Villain-Hero of Silverberg's The World Inside

'''Dunn, Thomas [P], and Richard D. Erlich. "The Mechanical Hive: Urbmon 116 as the Villain-Hero of Silverberg's The World Inside."' Extrapolation'' 21.4 (Winter 1980): 338-47.

Urban Monad ("Urbmon") 116 is the three-kilometer-high building that is the setting for most of what appears to be an episodic dystopian satire; more exactly TWI is a dystopian novel unified around Urbmon 116's victories over humans.

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