The novel is a kind of postmodernist collage stained with tears.

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It was infrastructure, kind of a novel infrastructure like detection devices, berms.

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It is set in a nondescript seaside town of the same name, the kind of place that might figure in a Haruki Murakami novel.

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In the proto steampunk science fiction novel from 1970, time travel is achieved through just such a kind of perfectly art-directed recreation of a place and moment in time.

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But what's novel about the CEAC design is that it incorporates a bio-regenerative life-support system -- the kind of technology that could one day not only feed an outpost on the moon or Mars, but also provide it with oxygen and recycle its water.

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