Moon-Calf - Couverture souple

Dell, Floyd

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1434422585 ISBN 13 : 9781434422583

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2011

Synopsis

In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip the book over to read the second title), here's the thirtieth Wildside Double: THE JEWELS OF APTOR: A SCIENCE FANTASY NOVEL, by Samuel R. Delany. What was the strange impetus that drove a group of four widely different humans to embark on a fear-filled journey across a forbidden sea to a legendary land? This was Earth still, but the Earth of a future terribly changed after a planet-searing disaster, a planet of weird cults, mutated beasts, and people

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Fays i WHEN James Fay died, he had held the office of county treasurer, and the respect of all his fellow citizens, for so long that it seemed as if it had been always so. He wasS awter County sgrand old man. It is many years now since his death, and he is still remembered inS awter County. But the story which keeps his memory alive goes back to an earlier time, when he was not respected by his fellow citizens to the time when he was old Jimmy Fay the crank. Old Jimmy had not changed; it was not in his nature to change. It was the whole United States, andS awter County along with it, that had changed. It had taken a civil war to make old Jimmy Fay popular among his neighbours. Old Jimmy was an Abolitionist at that date perhaps the only one in southwestern I llinois. He hated slavery profoundly and passionately. He had always hated it; and he was to live to see his neighbours go to war against it, and come home honouring him for having been the first among them to denounce it. But slavery was not an issue inS awter County yet. The free soil of Sawter County was washed by theM ississippi, and the sympathies of its citizens caressed by the slow pressure of a southward-moving current of interest. Speakers at the grand political meetings, knowing this to be in the zone of doubtful sympathies, avoided the subject. Politics meant little to Sawter County, anyway less than might have been supposed from the attendance at the meetings and barbecues. The taste of fresh roast pig, after long months of salt pork, was the real attraction not the speeches.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1434422585
• ISBN 13: 9781434422583
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 402
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible