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Vacuum Flowers

by Michael Swanwick · 1987

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Among the vanguard of today's boldest writers, Michael Swanwick presents his world of plug-in personalities, colonized asteroids, and a daring fugitive named Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark, a high-tech criminal seeking refuge on Earth's orbiting settlements—where all human evils blossom in the vacuum of space.

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science fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thiscyberpunkcyberpunkMore like thisLess of thisspace operaspace operaMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of this
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spacespaceMore like thisLess of this
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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 248 pages

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