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Thorns
Published 1967 by Ballantine Books · 222 pages
Hugo · 1968
FinalistNebula · 1968
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18 award entries · 10 books · 1 wins · 1968–1981
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Synopsis
Duncan Chalk, a monstrous media mogul who feeds psychically on human suffering, engineers a relationship between two damaged people: a man grotesquely altered by alien surgeons, and a young woman exploited after bearing a hundred children for a population experiment. As Chalk manipulates their pain for entertainment, the two must decide whether genuine connection is possible.
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