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"Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them.
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Contemporary, earnest, classical in form and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Vernor Vinge
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 444
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312875626
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