Loved itDon't Bite the Sun, I will give an A. So despite the grit in the old sandals, Don't Bite the Sun is a very good book and it's better than it really should be.
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Don't bite the sun (1976)
Others: Positive (The first book in the Four-BEE series) It's jang to be wild and sexy and reckless. It's jang to change your body, or your gender. It's jang to do daredevil tricks, and even get killed a few times..you can always come alive again. And it's jang to try to sabotage your robot-run world. But when the madcap chase for pleasure begins to drag and you start looking for a real life to live, you find the robots have left you nothing worthwhile to do. Searching for a way out of this pointless existence you make a lot of painful and stupid mistakes. But you fight your way free and start a new life - in exile. ..and you find you have to cope with sightseers and hangers-on, all uninvited and now exiled with you - and finally come face to face with the greatest and most deadly threat of all.
- ISBN:
- 9780575120440
- Length:
- 158 pages
Genres: science fiction
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