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With round-the-clock drugs, games, and eros parlors to entertain them and virtual weather to sustain them, humans live inside a global network of domed cities known collectively as ""the Enclosure."" Having poisoned the biosphere, we've had to close ourselves off from the Earth. The cities of the Enclosure are scattered around the globe on the land and sea, and are connected by a web of travel tubes, so no one needs to risk exposure. Health Patrollers police the boundaries of the Enclosure show more to keep the mutants and pollution out. Phoenix Marshall decodes satellite images for a living. He has spe show less

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A science fiction novel in which human society has evolved to exist completely sealed off against nature. The story follows a group of rebels as they plan to break out of the enclosed cities and create a new life. Overall, an interesting vision of a dystopian future.

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Scott Russell Sanders has won more than a dozen major honors, and his more than twenty books include novels, stories, and essays. He and his wife make their home in the hardwood hill country of southern Indiana. Find out more at scottrussellsanders.com.

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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3569 .A5137 .T47Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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