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Joachim Boaz posted: " As always, which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed? 1. Strength of Stones, Greg Bear (1981) John Harris' cover for the 1st edition From the back cover: "Ages ago this world was named God-Does-Battle. No on"
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As always, which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed?
1. Strength of Stones, Greg Bear (1981)
John Harris' cover for the 1st edition
From the back cover: "Ages ago this world was named God-Does-Battle. No one remembers wh. It was colonized in the most up-to-date way possible, supplied with the best Cities ever built by Robert Kahn. Huge laboratories labored for decades to produce the right combinations of plant, animal, and machine, and to fit them into the right design. The result was magnificent; living Cities, able to regenerate broken parts, to produce food on demand, and medicine, and clothing. so careful, so advanced was Robert Kahn that he even built into his Cities the ability to protect their inhabitants; to sense the presence of the occasional person whose potential for violence or cruelty made him a threat to society, to remove him from the City, and to erect walls of needle-sharp crystal to be sure he did not return.
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