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Direct Descent
Direct Descent
Author: Frank Herbert
A library planet: the greatest treasure, the deadliest weapon. Earth has become a library planet over the last several thousand years, a bastion of both useful and useless knowledge esoterica of all types: history, science, politics gathered by teams of ''pack rats'' who scour the galaxy for any scrap of information. Knowledge is...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780441149032
ISBN-10: 0441149030
Publication Date: 10/1981
Pages: 186
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Publisher: Ace Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Audio CD
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The library is thousands of years old, it's ongoing mission to amass tons of information from around the universe. The code says it must obey the government. But how will it survive a government that is out to destroy it with military force? And how will it survive a cost-cutting government bent on draining all the financial resources from the library until it is as good as destroyed?


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