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The shadow of heaven / by Bob Shaw

Following a global agricultural collapse, a journalist searches for his brother on an antigravity platform suspended five kilometres above the Earth. He uncovers a hidden society embroiled in a power struggle between the government and a monopolistic food authority.

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