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Relates the history of a bizarre little town on the edge of the Martian desert over the course of its thirty-year existence
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2 primary booksDesolation Road Universe is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1988 with contributions by Ian McDonald.
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Spellbinding!
Set in the far future after man and AI-kind have settled Mars, this is the story of a place called Desolation Road, a town started by one man, where nothing existed before, and nothing was EVER supposed to exist. Yet, as the city grows in size, the story grows in scope, to cover generations of the original inhabitants and their ancestors. Life, death, birth, war, deception, betrayal, religion, sex and love...
For lovers of cyberpunk, biopunk, and space opera.