- Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Interstellar travel
Earth is struggling from the ravages of nuclear Death. The leader of the first expedition to Thistledown, an asteroid starship, Garry Lanier, has grown old, bitter, weary, unwilling to live. Suddenly he reunites with General Pavel Mirsky--who cannot possibly exist because Mirsky disappeared with the Way, an endless corrider slicing across space through universes.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Greg Bear
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., Audible Studios on Brilliance, Gollancz
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- English, French, und
- ISBN
- 9780575096844
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“The New Murchison Station cemetery held only thirty graves.”
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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