The house gun - Nadine Gordimer sci-fi even the threat of prison

even the threat of prison

Eve must look to her own self-sufficiency

unitary intelligences made up of millions of minds

powerless to change their fortunes

The house gun - Nadine Gordimer sci-fi even the threat of prisonHow else can you defend yourself against losing your hi fi equipment, your tv set and computer, your watch and rings a house gun, like a house cat; that is a fact of ordinary life in many cities of the world as we come to the end of the twentieth century, especially in south africa at this time the successful, respected executive director of an insurance company, harold, and his doctor wife, claudia, for whom violence could never be a means of solving