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Park, Paul. COELESTIS. [London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Presentation copy with warm signed inscription by Park to one of his book editors on the title page. "On another planet, humans have subjugated the two native alien races, assimilating one to a drug-maintained human-like existence and allowing the other to decline to near-extinction. An Earthman and an alien female are thrown together in a crisis and fall in love. But without her drugs, the woman begins to revert to her 'native' ways. Strange abysses of understanding open up for all concerned." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 72. A "... superb novel ... Park has himself spent much time in the Third World of this planet, and he writes like a messenger from that world." - John Clute. One of the major novels of the 1990s. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-845. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#141753).

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