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Earth, two thousand years after the final holocaust which drove man deep underground; a ghostly, deserted landscape peopled only by the diligent robots who, century after century, silently harvest grain which no man will eat. Up into this eerie world comes Mel, a questioning young Roamer who has disobeyed the Law which says he must never venture into or beyond the Lost Levels. Together with three companions, and a companion not of this Earth, Mel takes on the awesome task of freeing human beings from the tyranny imposed on them by their remote ancestors; of justifying the agonized cry on…
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3 editions- Other · English · 1973Quartet Books · 186 pages · 9780704310759
- Other · English · 1972Doubleday · 186 pages · 9780038500444
- Other · English · 1972Gollancz · 187 pages · 9780575014114





