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Classical in form, cool, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Charles Stross
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 435
- Publisher
- Ace, Time Warner Books Uk, Ace Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780441012961
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First sentence
“just outside the expanding light cone of the present a star died, iron-bombed. Something-some exotic force of unnatural origin-twisted a knot in space, enclosing the heart of a stellar furnace.”
About Charles Stross · 1964
British science fiction writer and blogger
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