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The great romance : a rediscovered utopian adventure
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The great romance : a rediscovered utopian adventure

Author: Inhabitant; Dominic Alessio
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
Series: Bison frontiers of imagination.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Together these volumes represent a remarkable piece of science fiction writing as they proffer one of the first serious considerations of the colonization of other planets and the impact of human beings on an alien culture. Here, for the first time, readers encounter descriptions of spacesuits and airlocks, space shuttles and planetary rovers, interplanetary colonization and cross-species miscegenation.
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Genre/Form: Science fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Inhabitant, fl. 1881.
Great romance.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008
(OCoLC)608680782
Online version:
Inhabitant, fl. 1881.
Great romance.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008
(OCoLC)609306619
Material Type: Fiction, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Inhabitant; Dominic Alessio
ISBN: 9780803259966 0803259964
OCLC Number: 171287687
Notes: The surviving two volumes of The Inhabitant's utopian science fiction story originally published in Ashburton, New Zealand in 1881.
Description: lx, 102 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The great romance, volume 1 --
The great romance, volume 2.
Series Title: Bison frontiers of imagination.
Responsibility: the Inhabitant ; edited by Dominic Alessio.
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