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BEAUTIFUL SOUP: A NOVEL FOR THE 21st CENTURY.

Jacobs, Harvey.

New York: Celadon Press, [1993]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. "At birth, everyone is barcoded by the Prime Mother Computer, and our unfortunate hero finds himself classified as a can of soup. A sharply humorous New York 'slipstream' book ... ," Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 28. The first full-length SF work by an author highly-regarded for funny magazine tales which were collected in THE EGG OF THE GLAK AND OTHER STORIES (1969). [Reference: Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009]. A fine copy. (#168780) (29582). Item #29582

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