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by Greg Bear, Fred Gambino

Two centuries after the moon is colonised, a scientist conducting a dangerous search for absolute zero and his wife, who has acquired 400 frozen heads, find themselves targeted by a group of religious fanatics.

Accession 14830 ISBN 0712621741 Publisher Century
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