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The Folk of the Fringe

Orson Scott Card

New York: Tor Books, 1990

  • Orson Scott Card: Author
Short Story, Science Fiction
Mormons--Fiction
Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there exited a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret, formed from the vestiges of Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. The climate has changed. The Great Salt Lake has filled up to prehistoric levels. But there, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again. A civilization cannot be reclaimed by powerful organizations, or even by great men alone. It must be renewed by individual men and women, one by one, working together to make a community, a nation, a new America. [from publisher's web site]
Page numbers refer to the Tor edition.
  • more information at publisher's web site
PZ 4 .C178 F65

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