- Fiction, Science fiction, Asteroids, Imaginary wars and battles
"Perhaps it wasn't from our time, perhaps it wasn't even from our universe, but perhaps the arrival of the 300 km long stone was the answer to humanity's desperate plea to end the threat of nuclear war.
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- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Greg Bear
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 512
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., Nord, Audible Studios on Brilliance
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- German, Italian, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781497607408
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“On the first leg of the trip, in the passenger cabin of the long-bed shuttle, Patricia Vasquez had watched the Earth's cloud-smeared limb on a video monitor.”
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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