- American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Interplanetary voyages, Fiction
In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began as colonies, but now feel like home, each with its own long history of a thousand years or more, and each with its own unique culture.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Robert Silverberg
- First published
- April 1, 1979
- Pages
- 214
- Publisher
- N. Doubleday, Blackstone Audio Inc., Berkley Book
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786149995
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Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Silverberg received a Nebula award in 1986 for his novella Sailing to Byzantium, which takes its name from Yeats' poem; a Hugo in 1990 for Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another; and in 2004 he was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg
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