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One of science fiction's greatest writers -- a three-time Hugo Award winner -- introduces an all-new universe for the first time in decades. An innocent desert world is trapped between two hostile interstellar empires.One of the most renowned figures in science fiction, C.
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- Author
- C. J. Cherryh
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 427
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Eos, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060010713
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“Distance deceived the eye in the Lakht, that wide, red land of the First Descended, where legend said the ships had come down.”
Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction.
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