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The Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Card

The Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Card

      
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 existed 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.

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0812500865
0312876637

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First Edition

Paperback

Jun-1989

Tor

ISBN: 0812500865

ISBN13: 9780812500868


Paperback

Mar-1990

Warner

ISBN: 0712636382

ISBN13: 9780712636384


Trade Paperback

Sep-2001

St. Martin's

ISBN: 0312876637

ISBN13: 9780312876630

Hardcover

Jun-1989

Tor

ISBN: 0932096492

ISBN13: 9780932096494

eBook

Apr-2010

Tor

ISBN: 142996653X

ISBN13: 9781429966535


eBook (Kindle)

Apr-2010

Orb Books

 

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published

Jun-1989

genres

Speculative Fiction

sub-genres

Science Fiction