- Life on other planets, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnificent conclusion with his most imaginative and powerful novel to date--the shattering epic of a universe poised on the brink of revelation...or annihilation.The brutal enemy that has relentlessly pursued them for centuries has arrived.
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Epic, contemporary, classical in form and earnest.
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- David Brin
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 557
- Publisher
- Orbit, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781504064705
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- Life on other planets
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