title: O-Zone (novel)
text: O-zone is a science fiction novel by the American author Paul Theroux published in 1986.
  
  Synopsis
  Missouri is a nuclear wasteland after leakage of stored radioactive waste, off limits to all but the very rich. Eight of them, referred to as 'Owners', visit this O-Zone as their personal playground. Some of them come to the disturbing realizations that the life-forms outside of their walled in cities, assumed to be just 'things', seem as human as the Owners themselves.
  
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  1986 American novels
  American science fiction novels
  Novels by Paul Theroux
  Novels set in Missouri
  Dystopian novels
  Post-apocalyptic novels
  Novels set in the 2020s