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The black grail / Damien Broderick

by Damien Broderick

A human travels to the distant future where disaster has befallen the human race and embarks on a quest to restore its future. This Australian science fiction novel is an expanded version of the 1970 work Sorcerer's World.

Accession 33016 ISBN 1863300309 Publisher —
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