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Past Master

R. A. Lafferty

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#1768 of 8,085 books · #401 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel (1969) and the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1968).

Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astrobe in the year 2535 A.D., where there is trouble in utopia. Can he and his motley followers save this golden world from the Programmed Persons, and the soulless perfection they have engineered? The survival of faith itself is at stake in this thrilling, uncategorizable, wildly inventive first novel—but the adventure is more than one of ideas. As astonishingly as Philip K. Dick and other visionaries of the 1960s new wave, Lafferty turns the conventions of space-opera science fiction upside-down and inside-out. Here are fractured allegories, tales-within-tales, twinkle-in-the-eye surprises, fantastic byways, and alien subjectivities that take one's breath away.

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Publisher
Ace Books
ISBN-13
9781598536478
Topics
Utopia and dystopiaFaith and moralityTime travel

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