![]() ![]() On finding that the ``plain'' they occupy is actually part of a giant ship, the expedition attempts to contact its crew. In one such city, the expedition learns, the inhabitants have all committed suicide. An expedition to some of the other cities, led by masterful army officer Matt Sheehan and young computer genius Bobby Joe Brewster, discovers evidence that the municipalities are transported just before disaster strikes their home planets. Civil authorities, led by the city's first black woman mayor, strive to maintain order in the face of panic and the exhortations of a religious fanatic, while techies and scientists try to find out what has occurred. ![]() In the distance lie similarly transported communities, of alien origin. ![]() In this somewhat old-fashioned hard SF novel, aliens abruptly wrap the island of Manhattan in a cocoon, move it through space and plop it-lock, stock and populace-in the middle of an extensive plain. ![]()
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