The Status Civilization Author:Robert Sheckley THIS IS THE FUTURE EARTH -- ONE VAST AND STRATIFIED SOCIETY THAT BRUTALLY EJECTS ALL WHO FAIL TO CONFORM — Barrent had been tried, convicted, and brainwashed on Earth -- an Earth frozen by fear of the radical, the new. — For his crime, Barrent had been sent to Omega -- a prison planet walled by a ring of guardships that permitted no escape. — Omega... more » was a world of horror, living and dying by the law of tooth-and-claw. But even should Barrent survive Omega, a still greater ordeal awaited him: his escape back to Earth, and the subtle and more deadly terrors of the status civilization...« less