- Fiction, Science Fiction, Survival, Nuclear warfare
This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- David Brin
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 321
- Publisher
- Orbit, Random House Publishing Group, Nova Audio Books
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- German, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9781857236293
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About David Brin · 1950
American scientist and science fiction author
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