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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.
- 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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