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The second trip

by Robert Silverberg

In a future where violent criminals undergo behaviour-modifying memory erasure to create peaceful new identities, a rehabilitated man struggles to maintain his artificial personality when his original, dangerous self begins to reassert itself.

Accession 8897 ISBN 0380548747 Publisher Avon Books
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