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Terrarium (Paperback, New Ed)
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Terrarium (Paperback, New Ed)
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Loot Price R420
Discovery Miles 4 200
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With round-the-clock drugs, games, and eros parlors to entertain
them and virtual weather to sustain them, humans live inside a
global network of domed cities known collectively as "the
Enclosure." Having poisoned the biosphere, we've had to close
ourselves off from the Earth. The cities of the Enclosure are
scattered around the globe on the land and sea, and are connected
by a web of travel tubes, so no one needs to risk exposure. Health
Patrollers police the boundaries of the Enclosure to keep the
mutants and pollution out. Phoenix Marshall decodes satellite
images for a living. He has spent all 30 years of his life in
Oregon City, afloat on the Pacific Ocean. He busies himself with
work and various forms of recreation to keep boredom at bay. One
morning he opens his door to find Teeg Passio. Teeg is the same age
as Phoenix, but she's different; she's menacingly and enticingly
wild. She grew up on the outside. Her mother oversaw the recycling
of the old cities, and her father helped design the Enclosure. Teeg
works maintenance, which allows her to travel outside the walls.
When she introduces Phoenix to her crew, he is drawn into a
high-tech conspiracy that may threaten everything he understands.
Are humans really better off within the Enclosure? Is the Earth?
Are Health Patrollers keeping us safe or just keeping us in? Teeg
seduces Phoenix out of his orderly life, enlisting him in a secret,
political and sexual rebellion. Teeg and her co-conspirators, part
mystics, part tech-wizards, dream of a life embedded in nature.
Then one day, during a closely monitored repair mission on the
outside, a typhoon offers the rebels a chance to escape the
Enclosure and test their utopian dreams in the wilds.
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