A Gift From Earth
A solitary mountain rises from the searing, toxic blackness of the planet. 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 alive.
A solitary mountain rises from the searing, toxic blackness of the planet. 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 alive.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345350510 (0345350510)
ASIN: 0345350510
Publish date: 1987-06-12
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Good classic sci-fi. I read Never Let Me Go this year and it was eerily close to that. High creep factor. Good questions about technology and ethics.
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