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The secret city / Carol Emshwiller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Emshwiller, Carol.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
- Human-alien encounters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Secret city : a novel
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, Calif. : Tachyon Publications, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Secret City is a proud enclave carved in stone. Hidden high in a mountain range, it is a worn citadel protecting a lost culture. It harbors a handful of aliens stranded on Earth, waiting for rescue and running out of time. Over years of increasing poverty, an exodus to the human world has become their only chance for survival. The aliens are gradually assimilating not as a discrete culture but as a source of cheap labor.But the sudden arrival of ill-prepared rescuers will touch off divided loyalties, violent displacement, and star-crossed love. As unlikely human allies are pit
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Prologue; The Secret City; Epilogue
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4607-0683-8
- 1-4607-5200-7
- 1-61696-028-0
- 1-61696-030-2
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