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A Bottle of Old Wine, by Richard O. Lewis
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Title: A Bottle of Old Wine
Author: Richard O. Lewis
Illustrator: Kelly Freas
Release Date: September 16, 2009 [EBook #30004]
Language: English
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A grim tale of a future in which everyone is desperate to escape reality, and a hero who wants to have his wine and drink it, too.
A BOTTLE OF Old Wine
By Richard O. Lewis
Illustrated by KELLY FREAS
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She was in her chair as usual, her long legs curled up beneath her, the upper half of her face hidden in the bulk of her personalized, three-dimensional telovis. The telovis, of a stereoscopic nature, seemingly brought the performers with all their tinsel and color directly into the room of the watcher.
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