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 The Silent City - Eliza Vonarburg
Newest Review: ... soon realises that not everything is as it seems in the City - soon she will have to make the decision to leave and go to the ... more  ... surface, where a battle for supremacy is about to begin.
I had never heard of this novel prior to picking it up, but the blurb on the back of the book was enough to make me interested - seeing as it had come from 'The Women's Press' it was bound to have a different slant on the usual post-apocalypse genre.
"The Silent City" is a very daring book in its character relations, asking questions about sexual desire and identity you would never have bothered considering yourself, especially when characters discov...more |
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The Silent City - Eliza Vonarburg: Elisabeth Vonarburg's "The Silent City" (703 words)
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"The Silent City" is Elisabeth Vonarburg's first novel, originally published in 1980 in French, translated into English by Jane Brierley. Set in the far future after the surface of the world has been decimated by a nuclear holocaust, the sum of man's knowledge and technical advances has been saved in the City, an underground self-supporting environment. Few real people now survive there, kept alive for extended lifetimes by machines, conducting experiments and research on the medieval-like tribes that now roam the surface above. Paul is one such person, trying in earnest to breed a new race of humans that can (hopefully) live ... Read the complete review
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