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worn from the neck and when held up to another belonging to a potential mate will sync in pattern and color to approve marriage. Many times through Earth's existence it faced its end, but each time this event occurred, humanity was at a high point in intelligence and was able to rescue Earth from annihilation. When the sun died, they ignited the moon, and later when the moon died, the Earth was moved to safety. But now Earth's death is approaching during a time when humanity's technological levels are at a low point.
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that all three have had their Soul Eggs stolen by the fox-like Yawtl, and they begin a mission to track their Soul Eggs down and recover them. Their search brings them to the Jewelled Wasteland, home of the Shemibob, an ancient female being from another star who knows Earth's demise is near and holds the only key to escape.
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By the year 15 billion AD, Earth's species have evolved to the point of being super-selected to a purpose. Every form has a sentient representative: animal, plant, and mineral. Pairing of sentient beings, including humans, is controlled by the use of "Soul Eggs" which are given shortly after birth,
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The story opens with Deyv, a human, being forced to leave his tribe, the Turtle Tribe, because he cannot find a mate. After leaving his tribe to find a possible mate from a distant tribe, Deyv runs into trouble and ends up meeting the plant-man Sloosh and a feisty woman named Vana. It is revealed
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found himself unable to finish reading the novel, describing it as "meant for speed readers whose high-speed attention will construct from the asphalt of the prose a world of low resolution and high escapist involvement; not a novel but a daydream in remedial-reading."
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The Book of Philip José Farmer, or the Wares of Simple Simon’s Custard Pie and Space Man
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Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe
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The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3: Portraits of a Trickster
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Riverworld War: The Suppressed Fiction of Philip José Farmer
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This article about a 1970s science fiction novel is a
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The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 2: Of Dust and Soul
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The Worlds of Philip Jose Farmer: Protean Dimensions
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Philip Jose Farmer
Darrell Sweet
Science fiction
Del Rey Books
Hardcover
Paperback
ISBN
0-345-27684-1
OCLC
4908137
science fiction
novel
Philip José Farmer
Earth
Sun
Big Crunch
Thomas M. Disch
"Books -- 1979: Fluff and Fizzles"
F&SF
ISBN
0-345-28950-1
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t
e
Works
Philip José Farmer
World of Tiers
Riverworld
Herald Childe

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