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Three Novels ( World Inside / Thorns / Downward to the Earth)
Three Novels - World Inside / Thorns / Downward to the Earth Author:Robert Silverberg Together for the first time in one volume, here are three imaginative masterpieces of modern science fiction by one of the foremost writers of our time. Contains The World Inside, Thorns, and Downward to the Earth. — The World Inside - Urban Monad 116: A lofty spire a thousand stories high, where over 880,000 souls live out their perfectly regula... more »ted lives in peace and plenty.
But inside their glorious world are a few who dare to doubt and dream: Aurea Holston - a beautiful young bride who fears leaving the only world she's ever known.
Dillon Chrimes - cosmos group pop star, who becomes one of the urbmon in an orgiastic, mind-shattering trip.
Jason Quevedo - historian, who gets his kicks from the perverse savagery of an earlier age.
Siegmund Kluver - virile young man-on-the-way-up, who sees the nightmare behind the urbmon's shining facade.
And Michael Statler - who dares to escape...
Thorns - Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people's pain. He feeds off it, and carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. It is inevitable that Chalk should home in on Minner Burris, a space traveller whose body was taken apart by alien surgeons and then put back together again differently. Burris' pain is constant. And so is that of Lona Kelvin, used by scientists to supply eggs for 100 children and then ruthlessly discarded. Only an emotional vampire like Chalk can see the huge audience eager to watch a relationship develop between these two damaged people. And only Chalk can make it happen.
Downward to the Earth - Gundersen returned to Holman's World seeking atonement for his harsh years as colonial governer. But now this lush, exotic planet of mystery was called by its ancient name of Belzagor, and it belonged once again to its native alien races, the nildoror and the sulidoror. Drawn by its spell, Gundersen began a harrowing pilgrimage to its mist-shrouded north, to witness a strange ritual rebirth that would alter him forever.« less