An edition of The Fifth Head Of Cerberus (1972)

The fifth head of Cerberus

three novellas

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An edition of The Fifth Head Of Cerberus (1972)

The fifth head of Cerberus

three novellas

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.50 ·
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  • 1 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

From the back cover Ace Books paperback September 1981:

Sainte Croix and Sainte Anne... sister planets where the lives of humans and aliens merge like dreams and twist into nightmare. A haunting, lyrical, finally chilling triptych:

-- John March, Terran anthropologist, searches for the truth about the vanished aboriginal culture of the sister planets.

-- Sandwalker, an abo child, searches for Eastwind, the long-lost twin brother he has met only in dreams.

-- Number 5, reared in a Sainte Croix brothel, searches for his identity in a world of genetically engineered aliens clothed in human bodies -- and human memories.

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Quartet Books
Language
English
Pages
192

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Subjects
American Science fiction, Fiction in English, Fiction, general, Fiction, fantasy, epic

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La cinquième tête de Cerbère
2006, R. Laffont
in French
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The fifth head of cerberus
1994, ORB
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The fifth head of Cerberus: three novellas
1975, Quartet Books
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The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas
1972, Charles Scribner's Sons
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Edition Notes

This collection originally published, New York , Scribner, 1972 ; London , Gollancz, 1973.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/1
Library of Congress
PS3573.O52 F53 1975

The Physical Object

Pagination
(9),192p. ;
Number of pages
192

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15111140M
Internet Archive
fifthheadofcerbe0000wolf_u7j7
ISBN 10
0704311763
OCLC/WorldCat
16280838
Library Thing
21161
Goodreads
1003346

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"When I was a boy my brother David and I had to go to bed early whether we were sleepy or not."

Work Description

Bien loin de la Terre, deux planètes soeurs, Sainte-Anne et Sainte-Croix, ont été colonisées par des Français qui ont détruit la population indigène de la seconde. Des décennies plus tard, après que les colons ont été eux-mêmes vaincus et dispersés, un ethnologue consacre sa vie à retrouver les traces de cette culture effacée et oubliée.

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