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Engine Summer

(1979)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1980 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee)
1980 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee)
1980 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee)

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 ...


Genre: Science Fiction

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