The Wine of Violence (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: James Morrow
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cultural exploration
- Time of Work: Several centuries in the future
- Setting: Carlotta, a world in the asteroid belt of a distant solar system
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Future, Other worlds, Castaways, Pacifism
- Locales: Fictional planets
The Plot
An interplanetary scientific expedition returning to Nearth (New Earth) is drawn off course and lands on Carlotta, a “lost world” colonized in the distant past but long isolated from contact with other outposts of human civilization. One of the expedition’s four members is soon captured and killed by savage desert dwellers; the others, driven away from their ship, discover a strange walled city whose moat is composed of a mysterious organic fluid. Having bored into the wall, entomologist Felix Lostwax experiences what seems to him to be an uncomfortably...
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