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Foxfield. Home of the plantlike Commensals, with their bizarre group-mind, the One. Home too for the human colonists who founded a peaceful culture and, with the Commensals' help, adaption to a harsh biosphere.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Joan Slonczewski
- First published
- March 12, 1980
- Publisher
- Avon Books (Mm), Del Rey
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780380753284
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