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Cirque

Terry Carr

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#1929 of 8,085 books · #155 in Horror

Shortlisted for the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1977) and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1978).

Millennia in the future, Earth has become a backwater planet, ignored by others in the galaxy. Its one jewel is Cirque - the city on the Abyss, a city of love and harmony, with inspiring religious rites. But in the Abyss there lives the Beast, formed from the castoff hates of the Cirquians: a beast whose body is refuse, whose mind is black as sin. Feeble weapons are no match for the Beast. And now, after centuries, it's climbing out of the Abyss to claim its own...

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Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill Company
ISBN-13
9780575117129
Topics
Far future civilizationMan vs monsterGood and evil

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