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Getting Back
Getting Back
Author: William Dietrich
The world's population has doubled. Wilderness exists only in old movies. Every region on Earth has been explored, organized, and tamed, while modern gear makes climbing Everest a walk in the park. But in this brave new age one secret organization promises the most forbidden pleasure of all: a true outdoor adventure. The price is a year's salary...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780446524575
ISBN-10: 0446524573
Publication Date: 2/2/2000
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 6 ratings
Publisher: Warner Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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reviewed Getting Back on + 7 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 7
I strongly enjoyed this book. Strongly recommended to those who are interested in post-apocalyptic type novels, or sci fi with a strong dose of outdoors interest. An interesting and very possible future of monotany and one's relationship with the corporation, and how that corporation deals with those who don't seem to quite fit in. Pretty tidy, I must say.
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Helpful Score: 3
There is very little about this book that I didn't like. It had science fiction, good dialog and a George Orwell
1984-like feel.
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In a 21st-century world where there is no longer any wilderness or way to test your limits, would you pay a year's salary to a company which promises to drop you in a devastated country where your very survival depends upon your skill, cunning and knowledge. What the company doesn't tell you is that you're not pitting yourself against the wilderness, you're pitting yourself against your fellow man.


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