- Despotism, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction, Science fiction
All Second-Best Sailor wants is to sail his boat and trade with the wandering Neanderthals. But when the reefwives discover that a Cosmic Unity mission fleet is heading for his homeworld, his comfortable lifestyle vanishes in an instant.
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Epic, classical in form, contemporary and unpretentious.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 428
- Publisher
- Warner Books, Grand Central Publishing
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780446611039
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Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS CMath FIMA is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England. *--Wikipedia*
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