- English Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
Summer in 2014. Morning. The City Council of Washington, D.C. ignores yet another request to remove the paint from the facade of the Black House. Lyla Clay, pythoness, finds her apartment house comweb stuffed with advertising satches that will overload her garbage drain.
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Epic, grave, classical in form and plot-driven.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- John Brunner
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 397
- Publisher
- Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Gollancz, Ace Books
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780099058403
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John Kilian Houston Brunner was a British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel and the BSFA Award the same year. The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA Award in 1970. His first novel, Galactic Storm, was written under the pen-name Gill Hunt when he was seventeen. He did not start writing full-time until 1958, some years after his military service.
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