''The Ennead'' is a novel by

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published in 1978 by Viking Kestrel in the UK and Thomas Y. Crowell in the US.

Plot summary

''The Ennead'' is a novel set on the planet Erato, whose provincial inhabitants seek to control overpopulation by limiting the population and restricting immigration from the nearby planet Euterpe.

Reception

'' Kirkus Reviews'' states "though the playing out of her theme follows a standard outline, Mark's characters (including several memorable minor ones) are compellingly distinct, and her grim, dead-end village as real as the next one down the pike."

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reviewed ''The Ennead'' in '' Ares Magazine'' #2 and commented that "''The Ennead'' is not a nice novel; don't read it to the kiddies. It is, however, cleanly written, witty, and profoundly moving."

Reviews

*Review by Pamela Cleaver (1979) in

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, #16 May 1979 *Review by Barbara Krasnoff (1980) in

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, June 1980 *Review by Richard E. Geis (1980) in

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, August 1980 *''

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References

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