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" Eden / "
Stanislaw Lem ; translated by Marc E. Heine.
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BL
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1036008
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b790378
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| Uniform Title
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Eden.English
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| Main Entry
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Lem, Stanisław
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| Title & Author
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Eden /\ Stanislaw Lem ; translated by Marc E. Heine.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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San Diego :: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, [1989].
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, copyright ©1989
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| Page. NO
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262 pages ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0151275807
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: 0156278065
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: 9780151275809
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: 9780156278065
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| Notes
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"A Harvest/HBJ book."
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"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
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| Abstract
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A crew of six crash-land on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. They set forth into a strange world that grows ever stranger. The sun is not completely circular. The desert ground is soft, spongy, it exudes acrid vapors. Thickets of plants are shaped like hanging spiders; trees, violet and blue, breathe noisily; flower petals lift into the air like a flock of startled pigeons. The men come to a wall that moves in rhythmic waves; they enter an automated factory where mysterious objects are created, destroyed, and created again in a meaningless cycle. They meet an inhabitant of Eden, a large, humped, pearl-colored, naked torso from which protrudes another, smaller torso with a child's head and two small arms -- a "doubler," they call him. One doubler leads to another, to whole communities, to a world of flying saucers and genetic engineering. And everywhere, death. Swollen bodies in ditches and in wells, a beehive structure filled with clusters of glass eggs -- a skeleton within each egg.
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Science fiction.
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| Dewey Classification
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891.8/537
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| LC Classification
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PG7158.L39E313 1989
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Heine, Marc E.
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