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with the system of the apts., and one guy in particular goes AWOL checking out
the communes on the outside who have gone back to a ritualistic primitive
harvest society. There's a rock star guy who plays 3D planet vibrations for the
grubbo blue collars, a horny 14 year old who is trying to impress everyone,
sleeping with anything he can, helping to advance his ladder climbing in the
bureaucracy of the apts. I can't say enough stuff about this book, it's a real treat
to discover something like this, I could see why Silverberg gave up SF in the
70's when stuff like this gets pushed under the rug, never heard of this gold spire
before.
-- Bonnie Banks