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Master of Life and Death

por Silverberg, Robert

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Avon, 1968. Paperback. Very Good. 144pp. First Avon Printing. cover has small chip, light corner wear, bump on lower rear edge. store stamp inside front cover. paper starting to yellow around edges. binding tight. text clean and unmarked. an attractive copy. Size: 12mo - over 6 3/4 in - 7 3/4 in tall. Year: 1968.

Sinopse

From Robert Silverberg's contemporary afterword: "What I wanted to do in short was to produce a masterpiece. I don't mean that word 'masterpiece' in the pretentious sense, not a sublime work of genius but merely the piece of work which a craftsman presents by way of proving that the apprenticeship is over. That required an elaborate plot. My earliest books suffered from an inability to tie up loose ends...so I studied my elders, I analyzed the means by which the science fiction writers I admired wove the strands of their stories...I studied and I imitated and finally in Master of Life and Death, I let loose with all my thunderbolts." In The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Anthony Boucher wrote that "Silverberg's success in maintaining complete clarity and narrative drive while 'manipulating unnumbered plots and complex concepts is a technical triumph" and Master of Life and Death, returning in this RosettaBooks edition, has the contemporaneity of Silverberg's best work.When his superior disappears, Roy Walton, the assistant director of population relocation, suddenly becomes the Master of Life and Death on an overcrowded Earth and must reapportion the population to avoid fear and panic. But this is only the first of Walton's challenges. He is confronted by menacing aliens with an ambiguous agenda which may include conquest. A renegade scientist has produced a new immortality serum which if distributed would only strain resources and deepen human misery. But how can such information be withheld and will Walton become the Master of Death alone if he suppresses that information? Manifold obstacles make efforts to solve one problem only contribute to increasing the others. Ultimately, however, Walton finds the ingenious solution which ties and resolves all of the difficulties.

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Livreiro
The Book Bin US (US)
Nº do estoque do livreiro
BBS-019818
Título
Master of Life and Death
Autor
Silverberg, Robert
Formato/Encadernação
Brochura
Estado do livro
Usado - Muito Bom
Quantidade Disponível
1
Editorial
Avon
Data de publicação
1968
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0.00 libras

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Tight
Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
12mo
A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...

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