- Space flight, Meteors, Technology, Fiction
A series of strange meteors enters a planetary system, and a world is in danger. Can space travellers from this world, travel in time and space, and return in time with the technology needed to avert the disaster? This is the first book of the Orthogonal trilogy, following the travellers on their mission.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Greg Egan
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 386
- Publisher
- Night Shade, Gollancz, Start Publishing LLC
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9780575095120
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