The Gone-Away World (Vintage Contemporaries)
ISBN: 0307389073
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dmd · 2013-12-18 · Original thread
You'd be interested in The Gone Away World [1] which touches on this quite a bit.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Gone-Away-World-Vintage-Contempora...

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