MixedIt's an occasionally powerful book that also is occasionally quite boring, quite predictable and over expository. I don't think that there's enough here to say this is a true forgotten gem, but there are a few interesting ideas.
The Dream Millennium (1974)
Others: Mixed With corruption and pollution destroying Earth, John Devlin is sent on a one-thousand-year mission to find a new planet for mankind
- ISBN:
- 9780552100625
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- 217 pages
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