| Dreamfall Contributor(s): Vinge, Joan D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0765303426 ISBN-13: 9780765303424 Publisher: Tor Books OUR PRICE: $18.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2004 Annotation: Cat, the halfbreed telepath hero of "Catspaw "and "Psion", joins a research team on Refuge, homeworld of his mother's people, the Hydrans. Immediately, he finds trouble when he helps a Hydran woman escape human pursuers. The decimated Hydran population of Refuge is confined to a bleak "homeland," by a huge corporate state, Tau Biotech. Tau also controls Refuge's one unique natural resource, "Dreamfall." The tangible residue of cast-off thoughts from beautiful, enigmatic "cloud whales," dreamfall forms vast reefs, sacred to the Hydrans, but mere exploitable data to Tau. Caught between Tau and desperate Hydrans who fight to reclaim their world, Cat must somehow forge the ruins of the past into a means to defeat Tau's brutality to save his people--and himself. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure - Fiction | Science Fiction - Cyberpunk |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003071151 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (1.25 lbs) 431 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Cat, the halfbreed telepath hero of Catspaw and Psion, joins a research team on Refuge, homeworld of his mother's people, the Hydrans. Immediately, he finds trouble when he helps a Hydran woman escape human pursuers. The decimated Hydran population of Refuge is confined to a bleak homeland, by a huge corporate state, Tau Biotech. Tau also controls Refuge's one unique natural resource, Dreamfall. The tangible residue of cast-off thoughts from beautiful, enigmatic cloud whales, dreamfall forms vast reefs, sacred to the Hydrans, but mere exploitable data to Tau. Caught between Tau and desperate Hydrans who fight to reclaim their world, Cat must somehow forge the ruins of the past into a means to defeat Tau's brutality to save his people--and himself. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vinge, Joan D.: - Joan D. Vinge wrote the Hugo Award bestseller The Snow Queen, sequels including the Hugo finalist The Summer Queen and the Nebula finalist World's End, and the Cat series. She's written more than a dozen movie adaptations, including the #1 bestseller The Return of The Jedi Storybook. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin. |