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Scott R. Sanders - Terrarium - 9780253210210 - V9780253210210
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Terrarium

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Description for Terrarium Paperback. An imaginative novel about our environmental plight and attitudes. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FL; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 397.

With round-the-clock drugs, games, and eros parlors to entertain them and virtual weather to sustain them, humans live inside a global network of domed cities known collectively as "the Enclosure." Having poisoned the biosphere, we've had to close ourselves off from the Earth. The cities of the Enclosure are scattered around the globe on the land and sea, and are connected by a web of travel tubes, so no one needs to risk exposure. Health Patrollers police the boundaries of the Enclosure to keep the mutants and pollution out.

Phoenix Marshall decodes satellite images for a living. He has spent ... Read more

Teeg seduces Phoenix out of his orderly life, enlisting him in a secret, political and sexual rebellion. Teeg and her co-conspirators, part mystics, part tech-wizards, dream of a life embedded in nature. Then one day, during a closely monitored repair mission on the outside, a typhoon offers the rebels a chance to escape the Enclosure and test their utopian dreams in the wilds.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253210210
SKU
V9780253210210
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Scott R. Sanders
An award-winning author of essays and fiction with an ecological focus, Sanders' work has been compared to that of Emerson and Thoreau, as well as to that of Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard. In "Terrarium," he infuses his ecological vision into a timely and beautifully wrought science fiction novel.

Reviews for Terrarium
A keen eye, a sensuous and exact imagination, and a buoyant spirit.
Ursula K. Le Guin

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