- Fiction in English, Life on other planets, Fiction, Hugo Award Winner
492 pages ; 24 cm
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Grave, epic, classical in form and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Joan D. Vinge
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 486
- Publisher
- Dell, Doubleday, Sidgwick and Jackson
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780385271103
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First sentence
“HERE ON TIAMAT, WHERE THERE IS MORE WATER THAN LAND, THE SHARP EDGE between ocean and sky is blurred; the two merge into one.”
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