- Science fiction, Canadian fiction, Fiction, general
"Set on a distant planet, far in the future, West of January tells the story of a world in which time moves very slowly. Because it takes a lifetime for each region of the planet to experience dawn, midday and dusk, the planet's population does not remember the catastrophes that occur as the sun moves across the sky--entire civilizations have been scorched into oblivion.
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Grave, epic, earnest and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Dave Duncan
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 332
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media, Ballantine Books, Red Deer Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781497605794
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“I was still very young when I first saw an angel, yet so great was the impression made upon me by his visit that it remains my earliest memory, like a most distant tree at the limit of vision on an empty plain.”
David John Duncan is an award-winning Scottish Canadian fantasy and science fiction author. He made his first sale (A Rose Red City) two years later in 1986 at the age of 53, just two weeks after his 31 year career as a geologist came to an end due to a slump in the oil business, at which point he switched to full-time writing. Source: wikipedia
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