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"The Amalgam spans the nearly entire galaxy, and is composed of innumerable beings from a wild variety of races, some human or near it, some entirely other. The one place that they cannot go is the bulge, the bright, hot center of the galaxy.
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About the book
- Author
- Greg Egan
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 488
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Gollancz, Night Shade Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780575081642
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About Greg Egan · 1961
Australian science fiction writer
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