4.2
Fantasy & SciFi
Centuries from now, the basic right to expand human intelligence beyond its natural limits has become a war-worthy cause for the Demarchists and Conjoiners. Only vast lighthugger starships bind these squabbling colonies together, manned by the panicky and paranoid Ultras. And the hyperpigs just try to keep their heads down.
The rich get richer. And everyone tries not to think about the worrying number of extinct alien civilizations turning up on the outer reaches of settled space...because who's to say that humanity won't be next?
Set in the Revelation Space universe, this is the first short story collection by the author who has been called "one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists." The eight stories included in Galactic North are "Great Wall of Mars," "Glacial," "A Spy in Europa," "Weather," "Dilation Sleep," "Grafenwalder's Bestiary," "Nightingale," and "Galactic North."
© 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. (Luisterboek): 9781400180547
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Luisterboek: 28 september 2009
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4.2
Fantasy & SciFi
Centuries from now, the basic right to expand human intelligence beyond its natural limits has become a war-worthy cause for the Demarchists and Conjoiners. Only vast lighthugger starships bind these squabbling colonies together, manned by the panicky and paranoid Ultras. And the hyperpigs just try to keep their heads down.
The rich get richer. And everyone tries not to think about the worrying number of extinct alien civilizations turning up on the outer reaches of settled space...because who's to say that humanity won't be next?
Set in the Revelation Space universe, this is the first short story collection by the author who has been called "one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists." The eight stories included in Galactic North are "Great Wall of Mars," "Glacial," "A Spy in Europa," "Weather," "Dilation Sleep," "Grafenwalder's Bestiary," "Nightingale," and "Galactic North."
© 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. (Luisterboek): 9781400180547
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 28 september 2009
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Coen
13 apr 2023
Great intro to the Revelation Space books, I wish I had read it before starting with Revelation Space itself. It explains some of the details of conjoiner society, conjoiner drives and such more clearly than in the RS books. Only the final story (also called Galactic North) may be somewhat of a spoiler for Absolution Gap.
Gosia
2 aug 2023
Very enjoyable, the stories provided for context for some of the events in the revelation space series.
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