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An edition of A Gift from Earth (1968)

A Gift from Earth

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[from back cover]

A solitary mountain rises from the searing, toxic blackness of the planet. Forty miles below, the atmosphere is sixty times as thick as Earth's, and hot enough to melt lead.

The organ banks are the centre of this world. To them the subservient colonists contribute living limbs. And from them the overlords obtain the vital parts that keep them all alive...

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Publisher
Futura Publications Limited
Language
English
Pages
256

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Subjects
Known Space, Space colonies, Fiction, Ringworld (Imaginary place), Life on other planets, Fiction, science fiction, general
People
Matthew Keller
Places
Mount Lookitthat

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A Gift from Earth (Tales of Known Space)
December 31, 1981, Orbit
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1978, Futura Publications Limited
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December 12, 1977, Del Rey
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Camberwell, London

First Sentence

"A ramrobot had been the first to see Mount Lookitthat."

Table of Contents

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{'level': 0, 'label': '2', 'pagenum': '22', 'title': 'The Sons of Earth'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '3', 'pagenum': '45', 'title': 'The Car'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '4', 'pagenum': '67', 'title': 'The Question Man'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '5', 'pagenum': '83', 'title': 'The Hospital'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '6', 'pagenum': '97', 'title': 'The Vivarium'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '7', 'pagenum': '116', 'title': 'The Bleeding Heart'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '8', 'pagenum': '134', 'title': "Polly's Eyes"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '9', 'pagenum': '153', 'title': 'The Way Back'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '10', 'pagenum': '170', 'title': "Parlette's Hand"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '11', 'pagenum': '187', 'title': 'Interview with the Head'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '12', 'pagenum': '201', 'title': 'The Slowboat'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '13', 'pagenum': '221', 'title': 'It All Happened At Once'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '14', 'pagenum': '238', 'title': 'Balance of Power'}

Edition Notes

Genre
Science Fiction

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
sC8.256. n.e.
Number of pages
256

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15125654M
ISBN 10
0708880126
Library Thing
90658
Goodreads
2037605

Work Description

No Place for Bleeding Hearts

The world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans—it was shrouded in lethal mists. Life only existed on the one plateau, unreachable except from space. But the disastrous decision to colonize the planet could not be reversed. So the settlers surved somehow under a ruthless dictatorship.

Mount Lookitthat was rebellion-proof.

Then fate dealt the colonists a wild card named Matthew Keller, who had a talent that neither he nor anybody else knew about.

At last the colonists had a glimmer of hope!

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