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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Neal L. Asher
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Tor Science Fiction, Pan, Lübbe
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780330484336
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First sentence
“Angelina Pelter gazed out across a seascape as colour-drained as a charcoal drawing and felt her purpose harden: this was her home, this was the place she must defend against the silicon autocrat Earth Central and all its agents.”
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