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The Wine of Violence JAMES MORROW
NEW YORK: HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON, 1981 1982-11-01 0441894410 / 9780441894413 Paperback very good Paperback
Paperback. Type: Paperback ..Hard Cover. Good/Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). USED 273 PAGES. A tragicomic and distinctive, if often sluggish, debut--which thoughtfully expres Quetzalia: an agrarian, non-violent, non-technogical, and decidedly ambiguous utopia. A ship from planet Nearth is forced to land on a wilderness world inhabited by devolved human brain-eaters, the Neurovores: only meek entomogist Francis stwax and belligerent archaeogist Burne Newman survive to reach the ... More civilized realm of Quetzalia, protected from the Neurovores by a huge wall and a river of ""noctus"" (caustic liquefied hate); and they find that the Quetzalians live by an ethos called ""Zolmec,"" periodically undergoing catharsis with machines draining off their violent impulses, transforming them into noctus. Francis, attracted by Zolmec, falls for foxy surgeo First Edition 010242 6.00
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