A Rose for Ecclesiastes

A Rose for Ecclesiastes

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Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny
1963 • 207 pages

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This is a parting goodbye to the golden age of Sci-Fi. Science was discovering just how lifeless Mars really was, and Zelazney wanted to write something fantastical beforehand. The end of a civilization, and the beginning of something new, all before the backdrop of Martian soil.

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An extraordinary, implausible story. It does everything I hate in science fiction with a charm beyond its word count.

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