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Steel Beach
Steel Beach
Author: John Varley
Centuries after aliens conquered the Earth, humans live on colonized planetoids. A hack reporter with a death wish (named Hildy Johnson after a reporter in the play "The Front Page", a part variously played in film versions by both Rosalind Russell and Jack Lemmon) can't stop trying to kill himself. After he hooks up with the colony's computer o...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780399137594
ISBN-10: 0399137599
Publication Date: 7/17/1992
Pages: 479
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  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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4.3 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Putnam Publishing
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This is one of my favorite sci-fi books!
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A intense book about a colony on the moon straded by an alien attack of earth through the eyes of a journalist and doubter of the colonies artificial paradise.

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