- Space warfare, Life on other planets, Fiction, Science fiction
Serving his human colony on distant Huckleberry as a village ombudsman, retired fighter John Perry looks forward to settling into farm life with his wife and adopted daughter before he is drawn back into the dangerous interstellar politics of his past.
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Classical in form, contemporary, resolved and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- John Scalzi
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Atalante, Subterranean, Tor Books
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- heb, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9780765316974
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