- Montana, fiction, Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction, Evolution (Biology), Fiction
Now available in paperback--an awe-inspiring epic that covers an astonishing 165 million years, and dramatizes the amazing sweep of humankind's evolution from the far past to the distant future.
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Epic, earnest, grave and plot-driven.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen Baxter
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 645
- Publisher
- La Factoría de Ideas, Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Gollancz
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345457820
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First sentence
“At the edge of the clearing, Purga crept out of a dense patch of ferns.”
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