Reprieve from Paradise
{{short description|1955 novel by H. Chandler Elliott}}
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| name = Reprieve from Paradise
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| image = Reprieve from paradise.jpg
| caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
| author = H. Chandler Elliott
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| cover_artist = Mel Hunter
| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Science fiction
| publisher = Gnome Press
| release_date = 1955
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| media_type = Print (Hardback)
| pages = 256
| oclc = 4018479
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Reprieve from Paradise is a science fiction novel by American writer H. Chandler Elliott. It was published in 1955 by Gnome Press in an edition of 4,000 copies.
Plot introduction
The novel is set after an atomic war and the world is run by Polynesians. The hero discovers a plot to turn the earth on its axis in order to create an Antarctic utopia.
References
- {{cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker |author2=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=304 | year=1998}}
- {{cite book | last=Clute | first=John | authorlink=John Clute |author2=Peter Nicholls |authorlink2=Peter Nicholls (writer) | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction | location=New York| publisher=St. Martin's Griffin | pages=376 | year=1995|isbn=0-312-13486-X}}
- {{cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=156 | year=1974|isbn=0-911682-20-1}}
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Category:American science fiction novels
Category:Novels set in Antarctica
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