A complex and mordant satire. Near-future America has become a dictatorship run by a fundamentalist Christian televangelist in the Jim Bakker mould, with the Constitution suspended, a religious police force of Deacons who root out heresy and...
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Eschaton 1 – The Other End of...
Автор: Baxter Stephen
Серия: Бесконечная земля
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
Статус: Закончена
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