- Science fiction, Fiction, Astronauts, Space colonization
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Character
Contemporary, grave, earnest and epic.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen Baxter
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Del Rey, Harper Collins
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345475572
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First sentence
“"Of course Emma had known that Reid Malenfant-failed astronaut, her ex-husband, her current boss-had been buying up space shuttle rocket engines and static-firing them in the California desert."”
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