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A Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying 82 young people: fighters, strategists, scientists; the Children. They work with sophisticated non-human technologies that need new thinking to comprehend them.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Greg Bear
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 482
- Publisher
- Century, ereads.com, Orbit
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780759283862
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“MARTY SITS IN THE FRONT SEAT OF HIS FATHER'S BUICK, RIDING along a freeway in Oregon at midsummer twilight.”
Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books), artificial universes (The Way series), consciousness and cultural practices (Queen of Angels), and accelerated evolution (Blood Music, Darwin's Radio, and Darwin's Children). His most recent work is the 2021 novel The Unfinished Land. Greg Bear has written over 50 books in total. Greg Bear was also one of the five co-founders of the San Diego Comic-Con. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Bear)
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