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Picnic on Paradise

by Joanna Russ

160 pages · 1977

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Suspended in the jade depths of an ancient Earth sea. Chrono-hurled to a steep winter planet swept by an eerie future war. Middle-aged (at 26), tiger-tough (at 4'9"), walking a wild Universe on Time-long legs. This is the story of a woman named Alyx.

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