- Prophecies, Human-alien encounters, Space and time, Fiction
Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled.
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Grave, contemporary, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Robert Charles Wilson
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 350
- Publisher
- Tor Science Fiction, Tor
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780765363206
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