Race Against Time

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1973
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Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia. The Standards were the few survivors of bacterial warfare and lived on an Earth that was recovering slowly. They stressed no waste and no pollution, but their society was becoming stagnant. Since they still had the old technology, they created groups of individuals of high intelligence of various pure racial stocks who were to live in racially pure enclaves. These people decide to keep the races pure but to cooperate otherwise and will become examples to the Standards.

Published Date

1973

Publisher
Hawthorn
Place Published
New York
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1973 [Jacob, Piers Anthony Dillingham] (b. 1934). Race Against Time. By Piers Anthony [pseud.]. New York: Hawthorn. NZ

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia. The Standards were the few survivors of bacterial warfare and lived on an Earth that was recovering slowly. They stressed no waste and no pollution, but their society was becoming stagnant. Since they still had the old technology, they created groups of individuals of high intelligence of various pure racial stocks who were to live in racially pure enclaves. These people decide to keep the races pure but to cooperate otherwise and will become examples to the Standards. The author was born in England and brought to the U.S. age 6.

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Piers Anthony [pseud.]

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NZ

Author Note

The author (b. 1934) was born England and brought to the U.S. age 6.