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A vanished moon of Jupiter, a 500-foot -high cinder cone in Death Valley never before seen, and an enormous granite mountain in Australia also never seen before all point the way to an alien invasion of planet Earth.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Greg Bear, Stephen Bel Davies
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 474
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9781306635967
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“Arthur Gordon stood in the darkness by the bank of the Rogue River, having walked a dozen yards away from his house and family and guests, momentarily weary of company.”
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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