Tam returns home to Earth after years of working in space. But tam is a Sharkie, and on Earth Sharkies need not apply. Refused service in restaurants and other establishments and unable to find employment he takes the only desperate measure he can to survive.
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Alan E. Nourse was an American science fiction writer and physician whose fiction often combined speculative ideas with social pressure, medical knowledge, scientific change, and moral consequence. Born in 1928, Nourse became active in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s and wrote novels, short stories, juvenile science fiction, and nonfiction science and medical books. His work is often marked by clear storytelling, future-facing premises, and an interest in how technological change alters ordinary human life.Nourse is remembered for works such as The Bladerunner, which later gave its title-though not its plot-to Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner, as well as for juvenile and adult science fiction that explored medicine, space, social strain, and the human cost of progress. In stories such as Marley's Chain, he used classic magazine science fiction not merely for invention or adventure, but to examine belonging, prejudice, survival, and the social consequences of new frontiers.
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Marley's Chain: A Positronic Book is a classic Alan E. Nourse science fiction story of prejudice, displacement, and survival in a changed future America. Tam returns to Earth after years of working in space, only to discover that the world he left behind no longer has a place for him. He is a Sharkie, marked by his years beyond Earth, and the ordinary doors of society-work, service, dignity, welcome-are closed against him. What begins as a homecoming becomes a confrontation with exclusion, fear, and the desperate choices forced on those pushed outside the accepted order.Nourse uses the compact force of mid-century magazine science fiction to examine social division through the language of space travel, labour, and altered identity. Marley's Chain belongs to the tradition of classic speculative fiction in which future settings reveal the moral failures of the present: who is allowed to belong, who is treated as less than human, and what survival may demand from those denied ordinary justice. For readers of vintage science fiction, social science fiction, dystopian themes, prejudice narratives, and Golden Age speculative fiction, this Positronic edition presents a sharp and still-relevant story from one of the field's distinctive voices. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781515421399
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