| Permanence Contributor(s): Schroeder, Karl (Author) |
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ISBN: 2070349713 ISBN-13: 9782070349715 Publisher: Gallimard Education OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: French Published: January 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Folio Science Fiction |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 4.4" W x 7" (0.65 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars -- is running from her bullying brother, who has threatened to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft from the sparsely populated and austere comet-mining habitat she has lived in her whole life, she spots a distant, approaching object, and stakes a legal claim to it. It is not the valuable comet she hoped for but something even more wonderful, an abandoned Cycler starship. Her discovery unleashes a fury of action, greed, and interstellar intrigue as many factions attempt to take advantage of the last great opportunity to revitalize - and perhaps control - the Compact. This is the story of Rue's quest to visit and claim this ship and its treasures, set against a background of warring empires, strange alien artifacts, and fantastic science. It is a story of hope and danger, of a strange and compelling religion, Permanence, unique to this star-faring age, and of the re-birth of life and belief in a place at the edge of forever. |
