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Eclipse

Eclipse

A Song Called Youth Book One

by John Shirley

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appears in Cyberpunk, Science Fiction, and Science.

This gripping cyberpunk novel _x0097_ the first in a trilogy _x0097_ envisions a future in which the economy of the United States has crashed, while the Soviet Union not only remains intact but invades Western Europe. With the collapse of NATO, governments have abdicated control to an ostensibly private antiterrorist and security firm, the Second Alliance. But...

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appears in Cyberpunk, Science Fiction, and Science.

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