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Alph / by Charles Eric Maine.

LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Maine, C. E.
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Maine, Charles Eric, 1921-1981, author.
Contributor:
Holland, Brad (Bradford), 1943- illustrator.
Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships.
Science fiction, English.
Genre:
Fiction.
Science fiction.
Novels.
Penn Provenance:
Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
Physical Description:
218 pages ; 22 cm
Edition:
Book club edition.
Place of Publication:
Garden City, New York : Nelson Doubleday, [1972]
Summary:
In a future society where only female children are born, the birth of a male child promises to create scientific and socio-political chaos, so they determine to destroy the child, until one woman steals him and vows to care for him in defiance of a ruthless totalitarian authority.
Notes:
Edition statement from jacket.
Jacket painting by Brad Holland.
First printing has gutter code "28N" on page 213, indicates a printing date of July '72
Reprints the 1958 ACE book World Without Men in expanded and revised form.
Local Notes:
Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
Adams Collection copy has dustjacket. Has gutter code.
Cited in:
Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 251870
OCLC:
7666793
Publisher Number:
05299 Science Fiction Book Club

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