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"If you turn away from the natural gifts that God has given you, or the universe has given you, you're going to grow old too soon."
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![]() One of the problems explored in this novel is the role of people who live a long time. This is not quite as pressing a problem as the author seems to think; however, it is true that the average lifespan of a human being has gone from roughly 54 years in the year 1900 to about 75 years in 2000.
The name is, of course, taken from the gentle surface-dwelling children of the future from H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. The name suggests some sort of weakness, and raises the following question in the readers mind: Who are the Morlocks who prey upon them? Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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