- Fiction, science fiction, general, Interplanetary voyages, Fiction, Imaginary wars and battles
"From Nebula and Hugo Award-nominated Carolyn Ives Gilman comes Dark Orbit, a compelling novel featuring alien contact, mystery, and murder. Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
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- Author
- Carolyn Gilman
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Tor Books, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780765336309
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Carolyn Ives Gilman (born 1954) is an American historian and author of science fiction and fantasy. She has been nominated for the Nebula Award three times, and the Hugo Award twice. Her short fiction has been published in a number of magazines and publications, including Fantasy and Science Fiction, Interzone, Realms of Fantasy and Full Spectrum, along with a number of "year's best" anthologies. She is also the author of science fiction novels such as *Halfway Human*, which is noted for its "groundbreaking" exploration of gender. **Source**: [Carolyn Ives Gilman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Ives_Gilman) on Wikipedia
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