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Alison
Mar 13, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, bookclub
This was really good, which sort of surprised me based on the way the premise was written on the back. It's a novel of the future - a future in which the world has "contracted" and we're no longer flying across the ocean and driving cars around. The technology still abounds, but computers are treadle-powered and much everything is is powered by "kink springs," which some physical being (be it human or animal) has to first load up with power. GMO food has gone haywire and nearly everything seems ...more
Joseph
Sep 08, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
A bleak future story that ends with an interesting amount of hope.
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Robin
Nov 15, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Mar 20, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Marci
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Jenny
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Y_M_A
Oct 09, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Aimee
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Susan
Feb 22, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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