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Classical in form, cool, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Charles Sheffield
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 346
- Publisher
- Tor, Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Luebbe Verlagsgruppe
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780812511635
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First sentence
“Nell Cotter had visualized the sequence precisely during the final minutes before the hatch was closed: a slow fading of light, a gradual extinction that would grow ever fainter as they descended, never quite bleeding away completely.”
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