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Synopsis
One hundred years after World War III, Howie Ryder seeks revenge on Colonel Jacob and the raiders who attacked his family
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From Publishers Weekly
Another in the new Isaac Asimov Presents series (see above), this provocative novel is set in a world that nuclear war has almost decimated of cities, technology and large animals. To replace farm livestock, the country's sole source of meat is genetically altered humans, without intelligence or speech. A distant civil war out west, its harsh taxes and harsher collectors, force Howie Ryder to flee his family's Tennessee farm. He falls in with outlaw Pardo, who signs on with a big meat drive only to rustle it and playsand preys onboth sides in running guns. Barrett's SF rendering of this latter-day civil war comes complete with a version of slavery, cavalry charges and a young boy representing the country's coming of age. The romantic narrative skillfully moves from a well-told if familiar story of war and the western frontier to areas of ambiguity and uncertainty that readers are left to answer for themselves.
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton General Division
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0450421732
- ISBN 13 9780450421730
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages275
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