- Science and state, Humor, form, comic strips & cartoons, Space sciences, New York Times bestseller
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it?
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Contemporary, epic, plot-driven and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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About the book
- First published
- 2023
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Penguin Audio, Penguin Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141993300
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First sentence
“Wherever you are on this planet, you’ve recently given some thought to leaving it.”
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