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Starchild

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In THE REEFS OF SPACE, Frederick Pohl and Jack Williamson created the glorious worldlets of crystal where rebels from machine-bound Earth could find a refuge from the inexorable Plan of Man with its Body Bank and Programmed Living.

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Now, in STARCHILD, two generations later, the rebellion goes even further until it comes to a head in open conflict which threatens the very heart of the Plan of Man.

Brilliant in conception, sparkling with an unmatched ingenuity of ideas, STARCHILD is pure science fiction at its unadulterated best.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 150 pages

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