Reprieve from Paradise

Reprieve from Paradise

Infobox Book
name = Reprieve from Paradise
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = H. Chandler Elliott
illustrator =
cover_artist = Mel Hunter
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Gnome Press
release_date = 1955
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 256 pp
isbn = NA
oclc = 4018479
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"Reprieve from Paradise" is a science fiction novel by author 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 | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=304 | date=1998
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*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 | date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1


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