SI L'ETAT NE CONVIENT PAS, JE REPRENDS LE LIVRE NON REEDITE en francais a l'heure actuelle. Chacun, au seuil de l'adolescence, doit affronter seul une planète sauvage. Et, pour rester humains et parce qu'il nous faut être forts, nous avons une règle de sélection à laquelle chacun doit se soumettre. Au 3ème Niveau, il y a un soleil artificiel, mais les prés sont vrais, et les oiseaux et les lapins aussi : c'est un coin de la Terre que nos ancêtres ont reconstitués là pour ne pas perdre ce qui fait encore de nous des humains. Tout en bas, au fond du Vaisseau, il y a les machines, la Technique. Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin (Published by Ace ) Winner, Best Novel in 1968 In 2198, one hundred and fifty years after the desperate wars that destroyed an overpopulated Earth, humanity lives precariously on a hundred hastily-established colony worlds and in the seven giant Ships that once ferried people to the stars. J'ai 12 ans et comme je suis encore une petite fille, je m'amuse à passer d'un niveau à l'autre par les conduits d'aération. Un des grands vaisseaux qui ont quittés la Terre, jadis, avant qu'elle explose et que les hommes se dispersent entre les mondes des étoiles. , tranche dorsale et plats un peu passes,, autrement BON ETAT, EDITION ORIGINALE en francais Traduction de l'americain (Rite of passage, 1968) Mon Univers est un vaisseau. Text offset from that of the 1968 Ace Books edition. Edition Opta 1973 "Galaxie bis" # 29, EPUISE EN LIBRAIRIE, broche, format 11.5*18 cm, 255 pages.
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