On 2007-09-06, plorkwort wrote:
> _Souls in the Great Machine_ by Sean McMullen?
>
> from review at http://www.sfsite.com/08a/soul62.htm:
>
> -> Many years after a disaster called Greatwinter destroyed human
> -> civilization, people in what was once Australia live in smallish city
> -> states. Technology includes fairly ingenious mechanical devices, and
> -> guns, but no electricity or electronics. A central feature of local
> -> civilization is the libraries, where intelligent men and women seem
to
> -> maintain what records of the past they can. The most im****tant
library,
> -> called Libris, is in Rochester, and a new leader, Zarvora Cybeline,
has
> -> just been appointed. She establishes a curious project: a huge
calculating
> -> machine, the Calculor, in which the individual components are human
> -> slaves.
>
> Book is partially online at
> http://books.google.com/books?id=phK3gFzkwNcC
I found this in the library. The blurb on the back says "librarians
fight duels to settle disputes"!
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