- Fiction, Science Fiction, Space colonies, Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction
This "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year explores the second age of space colonization, when one of Earth's first colonies has restored humanity at a high price—a monopoly over all human commerce. When a satellite is attacked by corporate raiders, a woman flees to a ship bound for the Up-and-Out and is about to discover a secret the universe may not be ready to face.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- C. S. Friedman
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 579
- Publisher
- Distributed by Penguin Putnam, DAW Books, Head of Zeus
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781800245372
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