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Author Index E	David Ely
Title Index A	A Journal of the Flood Year


Year	1992
Publisher	Phoenix (Orion Books Ltd)
ISBN	1857990463

Synopsis	In a near-future world of technobureaucracy and ultraconformity, where human contact is abhorrent and passion unheard of, quick-tempered, questioning William Fowke is already branded a troublemaker. And now he insists the Wall - the engineering marvel that extends America's East Coast far into the Atlantic Ocean - is leaking. Convicted of sedition and 'excluded', Fowke begins an horrific, yet blackly comic, odyssey through a nether world of gulags. Everyone except agent Julia Keller, who arrested him, is hostile - even his fellow prisoners - leaving Fowke excluded even by the excluded. And desperate to get back to his threatened Wall ...

Review	'In this parable of chilling power and piercing beauty, David Ely balances the impersonality of his many robotlike or emotionally stunted characters with dramatic scenes of black comedy' Publishers Weekly 'An astonishing talent' Anthony Burgess

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	Credit: NASA
Wildfires Seen From Station NASA Station Science Officer Ed Lu snapped this stunning image of the wildfires ravaging Southern California's San Bernardino National Forest on Sunday, October 26 at about 2 p.m. EST, a day before he and Expedition 7 crewmate Yuri Malenchencko left the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth. In the foreground are Lake Arrowhead, left, and Silverwood Lake. The photo was taken with a digital camera equipped with a 400mm lens.
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