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EARTH MADE OF GLASS by John Barnes, Tor, 4/98, $25.95, ISBN 0-312-85851-5
Barnes returns to the universe of A Million Open Doors for this major new novel. The human race is rapidly reuniting after a diaspora that left colonies of genuinely ethnic diversity as well as a number of artificially created ones scattered through the universe. The discovery of the springer, a matter transmitter, has made it possible to reunite these diverse worlds, and for the most part this has happened peacefully, although with the necessary loss of much of the uniqueness of the individual worlds. The leaders of the human governments believe this to be necessary,...