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After the Polothians [MultiFormat]
by Stephen Brown
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A Contemporary Woman's Adventures in Deep Time. Following a heart-attack Anne Goodwood becomes the first person placed in an experimental hibernation chamber while a new heart is sought. She is woken hundreds of years later, in a city she has never heard of, by the Curator, an unseen computer that maintains the city long years after the last humans, the Polothians, left Earth to escape a plague that had killed the rest of the world's population. The Curator asks Anne to write a history of the Po... more info>> 2005
Words: 80644 - Reading Time: 230-322 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Ruby on the North Shore [MultiFormat]
by Stephen Brown
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Could Her Death Save a World? From the author of the bestselling After the Polothians comes a dazzling novel of art, science and human passions. Fifty years after settling a small, icy world, but a single city has been established, on the south shore of a great lake. The colonists must still work 12/7 with only three days off each year because an unrealistic government's plans have kept the world from becoming a success. Then the suicide of the popular state artist, Ruby, sets off a series of in... more info>> 2005
Words: 57266 - Reading Time: 163-229 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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