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" Rainbows end / "
Vernor Vinge.
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BL
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956417
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b710787
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| Main Entry
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Vinge, Vernor.
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| Title & Author
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Rainbows end /\ Vernor Vinge.
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| Edition Statement
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First edition.
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New York :: Tor,, 2006.
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364 pages ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0312856849
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: 0812536363
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: 9780312856847
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: 9780812536362
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| Notes
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"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
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| Abstract
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Recovering Alzheimer's patient and former poet Robert Gu begins to retrain at a high school in order to become adjusted to the technology driven world. Unintentionally, he becomes involved in a conspiracy to use technology as a method for world domination and also feels compelled to protest against the changes planned for the UCSD Geisel Library where all the books there and worldwide would physically cease to exist.
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Alzheimer's disease-- Patients, Fiction.
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Books and reading, Fiction.
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Conspiracies, Fiction.
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Memory, Fiction.
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Poets, American-- 20th century, Fiction.
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Chinese Americans, Fiction.
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Alzheimer's disease-- Patients.
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Books and reading.
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Conspiracies.
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Memory.
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Poets, American.
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San Diego (Calif.), Fiction.
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California, San Diego.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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| LC Classification
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PS3572.I534R35 2006
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