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Possible ex library copy, with all the markingsstickers of that library. The book opens 29 years after the vanishing a morning when 10 percent of the global population woke up to find the other 90 percent had simply disappeared. His latest book is american science fiction and the cold war 1999. A very absorbing, thoughtful story set 30 years after the mysterious vanishing of 90% of the population.
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