This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

© 1985 by Scott Russell Sanders

Afterword © 1995 by Scott Russell Sanders

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sanders, Scott R. (Scott Russell), date
Terrarium / Scott Russell Sanders.
p.   cm.

ISBN 0-253-32956-6 (cloth). — ISBN 0-253-21021-6 (pbk.) 1.
Twenty-first century—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.A5137T47  1995

813’.54—dc20                                                                        95-4805

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