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The Furies |
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author's first published book. A typical English disaster novel in the manner
of John Wyndham and John Christopher, although perhaps a little harder edged
than either of those writers would have considered. An interesting book, but
not really typical of the power of imagination Roberts can bring to bear. First
editions are notoriously difficult (and expensive) but paperback editions turn
up regularly.
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COVER BLURB: America and Russia both explode huge H-bombs
simultaneously. The tests go wrong, cracking the seabed, rupturing continents
and engiulfing cities. The Thames flattens into a flood plain, London is
drowned. Now comes cosmic retribution - giant wasps, monstrous and deadly,
directed by a supernal (SiC) intelligence, invade a reeling world. In England,
isolated guerillas fight on . . . (from the Pan Books edition).
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| FIRST EDITION: Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1966. |
