Cemetery World
Earth: expensive, elite graveyard to the galaxy. Ravaged 10,000 years earlier by war, Earth was reclaimed by its space-dwelling offspring as a planet of landscaping and tombstones. None of them fully human, Fletcher, Cynthia, and Elmer journey through this dead world, discovering human traits and...
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Earth: expensive, elite graveyard to the galaxy. Ravaged 10,000 years earlier by war, Earth was reclaimed by its space-dwelling offspring as a planet of landscaping and tombstones. None of them fully human, Fletcher, Cynthia, and Elmer journey through this dead world, discovering human traits and undertaking a quest to rebuild a human world on Earth.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780881849851 (0881849855)
Publish date: June 1st 1993
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pages no: 159
Edition language: English
Clifford Simak wrote some very good books such as the Hugo award winning novel City but he also wrote clunkers like this one. The plot sounds like a winner: a planet is one big cemetery, there's a treasure hunt, throw in some robots and nasty things lurking in the shadows. The story however is disjo...
some great ideas and concepts, and lovely descriptions from time to time, but very disjointed, and ends up abruptly, like he was tired of writing it. plus a tacked-on romance. yargh.
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