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JitterbugPerfume

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7. The Memory of Whiteness, Kim Stanley Robinson-in
Sun May 19, 2013, 12:41 PM
May 2013

in 3229AD human civilization is scattered among the planets, moons and asteroids of the solar system. Billions of lives depend upon the technology derived from the breakthroughs of the greatest physicist of the day,Arthur Holywelkin, but in the last years of his life devoted himself to building a strange, beautiful and complex musical instrument called The Orchestra.......
during the last two weeks I started and discarded two books that seemed to have nothing to offer at this time . I will probably return to one of them later. I have to be in the mood for non fiction

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