- Fiction, science fiction, general, American Science fiction
It's the 35th century where a person is given one day a week to live, work and play and the other six days remain in suspended animation. There are "daybreakers", outlaws, who live seven different lives and Jeff Caird is one of these who finds his life in danger.
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- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Philip José Farmer
- First published
- March 1, 1986
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- London: Granada, Berkley, Ace Books
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780441140015
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**Philip José Farmer** was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Farmer is best known for his sequences of novel — especially the World of Tiers (1965–93) and Riverworld (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for — and reworking of — the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Philip José Farmer is also well known for remixing classic fictional characters, worlds, and both real and fake authors. This is epitomized with his Wold Newton family group of books that tie
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