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Cemetery World (Paperback)

by Clifford D. Simak (Author)
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In Simak's work of science fiction, a brave team seeks to reclaim planet Earth, which, after a disastrous war, has become an elite graveyard.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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Earth: expensive, elite graveyard to the galaxy. Ravaged 10,000 years earlier by war, Earth was reclaimed by its space-dwelling offspring as a planet of landscaping and tombstones. None of them fully human, Fletcher, Cynthia, and Elmer journey through this dead world, discovering human traits and undertaking a quest to rebuild a human world on Earth. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cemetery World, Oct 1 2001
By Justin Carlyle (the Midwest) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cemetery World (Paperback)
I've been reading Simak since the 1950s, and consider
Cemetery World to be one of his finest. Despite a somewhat
implausible premise, he once again delivered a gem that
emphasized his pastoral, humane nature. There are elements of
City here, and some of his other masterpieces. It is a
delightful read, especially late at night when the fires
burn high and a cold wind tries to get past the shutters!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not his best, Mar 18 2001
By Peter Lorentzen (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cemetery World (Paperback)
I picked up this book at the used bookstore, based on fond memories of Simak's other works, like "City." This far-far future tale of people returned to a long abandoned Earth has a little of the flavor of Norton's Witch World, or Cordwainer Smith's stories. But the characters are neither powerful mythic archetypes, nor fully-fleshed out human beings. The details also get confused--somehow the whole planet seems to have been reduced to a rather small chunk of territory for the convenience of the plot rather than any inherent logic. And the technology seems like too simple a linear extrapolation of mid-20th century high-tech. This one hasn't stood the test of time.
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