- Fiction, Science Fiction, English Science fiction, Space colonies
"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life..."This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga.
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Epic, richly built, contemporary and grave.
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen Baxter
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 460
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, HarperPrism, Heyne
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783453179837
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First sentence
“At the instant of his birth, a hundred impressions cascaded over him.”
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