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Centuries after the catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. Clovis, a young scholar working in the spaceship-construction yard, could make the difference between success and failure for his mysterious new lover, Merrial. As Myra Godwin, who faced the end of a different space age centuries before, appeals to the crumbling West for help, history turns on her own strange past and the terrible decisions she faces now.
First publish date: August 13, 2001
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Ken MacLeod
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