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Inferno

by Mike Resnick · 1993

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"A small group of humans hopes to avoid mistakes that destroyed many another world as they raise the Jasons from barbarism to civilization, but something goes hideously wrong. One dictator after another rises to power, and the culture of the world is torn to fragments".—Science Fiction Chronicle.

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