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Engine Summer

John Crowley

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#1971 of 8,085 books · #385 in Fantasy

Shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Best Novel (1980) and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1980).

In the drowsy tranquility of Little Belaire, the Truthful Speakers lead lives of peaceful self-sufficiency ignoring the depopulated wilderness beyond their narrow borders. It is a society untouched by pain or violence and the self-destroying 'Angels' of the past are barely remembered. But when Rush That Speaks leaves his home on a pilgrimage of self-enlightenment, he finds a landscape haunted by myths and memories. The overgrown ruins reflect a world outside that is stranger than his people ever dreamed.

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Publisher
Doubleday
ISBN-13
9780575082953
Topics
Post-apocalyptic societyComing of ageMemory and myth

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