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Cemetery world / Clifford D. Simak.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Simak, C.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dystopias--Fiction.
- Dystopias.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Dystopias.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 186 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book Club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Putnam, [1973]
- Summary:
- Earth: expensive, elite graveyard to the galaxy. Ravaged 10,000 years earlier by war, Earth was reclaimed by its space-dwelling offspring as a planet of landscaping and tombstones. None of them fully human, Fletcher, Cynthia, and Elmer journey through this dead world, discovering human traits and undertaking a quest to rebuild a human world on Earth.
- Notes:
- "Book Club Edition"--Jacket.
- Cover art: Vincent DiFate.
- First printing has gutter code "D11" on page 185; indicates a printing date of March 1973
- 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, 6492
- OCLC:
- 1969447
- Publisher Number:
- 05653 Science Fiction Book Club
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