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      Test of Fire

      by Ben Bova
      Published
      Oct 1985
      Main Genre
      Science Fiction Sci-Fi
      Pages
      319
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      Cities became ovens. Grasslands became seas of flame. As the touch of dawn swept westward across the spinning planet Earth, its fiery finger killed everything in its path. Glaciers in Switzerland began to melt, floodwaters poured down on the burning, smoking villages dotting the Alpine meadows. Paris became a torch, then London. North of the Arctic Circle, Lapplanders in their summer furs burst into flame as their reindeer collapsed and roasted on the smoking tundra.

      The line of dawn raced westward across the Atlantic Ocean, but as it did the brightness diminished. The sun dimmed as quickly as it had brightened.

      The Americas escaped the Sun's wrath. Almost.

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      Speculative Fiction

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      Science Fiction

      Themes

      Post-Apocalyptic

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      Oct 1985 Tor ISBN13 9780812532081 ISBN10 0812532082
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