- Teenage girls, Fiction, Space warfare, Life on other planets in fiction
Zoë Boutin-Perry travels to the fledgling colony world of Roanoke with her adoptive parents, John Perry and Jane Sagan, who have accepted positions as administrators. When her biological father develops the technology to give the Obin consciousness and self-awareness, she suddenly becomes the center of a critical but endangered treaty between the Obin and the Colonial Union.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- John Scalzi
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Heyne, Ithaki Yayinlari, Tor Books
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781596063341
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