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The First Century After Beatrice

Mysterious beans are found on the market stalls of the East, to which ancient superstition lends the power of favouring the birth of male children. When a French entomologist obtains a few of these beans, he worries that the world has entered a critical phase of its history.

Genre
science fictiondystopiafantasyhistorical fiction
Setting
1990sarabmiddle east
Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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