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The City and the Cygnets

The City and the Cygnets

by Michael Bishop
Paperback
Publication Date: 20/08/2019

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"[These] stories . . . elliptically chronicle the life of an alternative Atlanta, Georgia, 2000-2070. Beneath a huge artificial dome that blocks out the stars, hierarchically stashed on nine subterranean levels with computer-controlled simulations of weather and seasonal change, the citizens of this grim, bureaucracy-ridden sardine tin . . . contrive not just to endure but to prevail. Through 70 years of increasing repression, various free spirts turn a living cubicle into a facsimile of a starship in deep space, experiment with multipartner 'marriages' for the elderly, or dearly earn moments of mutual benison with an unwanted cubicle-mate. . . . bearing witness to the weedlike survival of human instinct and aspiration in the most confining and programmed environment." [from Kirkus Reviews]
ISBN:
9781933846781
9781933846781
Category:
Science fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20-08-2019
Publisher:
Fairwood Press LLC
Pages:
466
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x26mm
Weight:
0.68kg

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