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The long afternoon of Earth / Brian Aldiss.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Aldiss, B. 25
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aldiss, Brian W. (Brian Wilson), 1925-2017, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carnivorous plants--Fiction.
- Carnivorous plants.
- Survival--Fiction.
- Survival.
- Earth (Planet).
- Earth (Planet)--Rotation--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 217 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, New York : Nelson Doubleday, [1981]
- Summary:
- Millons of years from now, the Earth stops spinning. One half of the world is in shadow, the other in endless sun. A young boy embarks on a journey to find a better world.
- Notes:
- Edition statement from jacket.
- "This novel was published, in slightly different form, in The Magazine of Fanatasy and Science Fiction, in installments entitled Hothouse, Nomansland, Undergrowth, Timberline, and Evergreen. Copyright 1960, 1961 by Mercury Press, Inc."
- Jacket painting by Tony Fiyalko.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket. No gutter code.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 153211
- OCLC:
- 8055630
- Publisher Number:
- 05835 Science Fiction Book Club
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