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White Mars, or, The mind set free : a 21st-century utopia / Brian W. Aldiss ; in collaboration with Roger Penrose

Isolated from Earth after a global economic collapse, a Martian scientific colony attempts to create a utopian society. Within self-contained domes, conflict develops between those pursuing a new social ideal and those desperate to return to their home planet.

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