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Thorns

Robert Silverberg

Cover of Thorns

Published 1967 by Ballantine Books · 222 pages

Hugo Nominee 1968Nebula Nominee 1968
Science Fiction

Synopsis

Duncan Chalk, a monstrous media mogul who feeds psychically on human suffering, engineers a relationship between two damaged people: a man grotesquely altered by alien surgeons, and a young woman exploited after bearing a hundred children for a population experiment. As Chalk manipulates their pain for entertainment, the two must decide whether genuine connection is possible.

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US

ISBN

9781497632448

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