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Heads Study Guide

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by Greg Bear
About 16 pages (4,692 words)
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Setting

The events of Heads are set on the moon about two centuries in the future. It is inhabited by two million people, all allied with one of more than fifty families, called "multiples." The major action takes place in the Ice Pit, "a volcanic burp in the Moon's ancient past, a natural bubble almost ninety metres wide that had once been filled with the aqueous seep of a nearby ice fall." The ice has long since been mined for water for the inhabitants of the moon, and the Ice Pit is used mostly for an unprofitable farm and the experiments of William.....

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Heads from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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