The first volume in a series. This volume depicts a corrupt, authoritarian dystopia based on the detailed study of the shapes of the parts the human body with people being disfigured or condemned based on those shapes. After the dystopia collapses, a primitive eutopia is briefly presented in the last chapter. His Memoranda. New York: Avon Eos, 1999 is a sequel in which the primitive eutopia is attacked by the leader of the failed dystopia. In the third volume, The Beyond. New York: Tor, 2001 the protagonist of the first two searches “the Beyond,” which appears to be a version of Hell, hoping for forgiveness for his actions in the first volume.
}, year = {1997}, month = {01/1997}, publisher = {Avon Books}, address = {New York}, note = {Rpt. New York: AvonEos, 1998.
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