- Science fiction, Cyberspace, fantasy, swords and sorcery
"A marvellous mixture of hard-science SF and sword-and-sorcery imagery.... You wish the author were present so you could applaud." - *Analog*
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Grave, epic, cool and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Vernor Vinge, James Frenkel
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Bluejay Books, Distributed by St. Martin's Press, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Chinese, English, Japanese
- ISBN
- 9780241975589
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