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Dichronauts

Dichronauts

Dichronauts Hardback - 2017

by Greg Egan

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Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2017. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Dichronauts
  • Author Greg Egan
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York
  • Publication date 2017
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G159780892XI5N00
  • ISBN 9781597808927 / 159780892X
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 3.05 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Symbiosis
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016038952
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Hugo Award-winning hard science fiction master Greg Egan returns with a new novel featuring one of science fiction's most unusual worlds.

Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right. Theo, in turn, relies on Seth for mobility, and for ordinary vision looking forwards and backwards. Like everyone else in their world, they are symbionts, depending on each other to survive.

In the universe containing Seth's world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a "dark cone" to the north and south. Seth can only face to the east (or the west, if he tips his head backwards). If he starts to turn to the north or south, his body stretches out across the landscape, and to rotate as far as north-north-east is every bit as impossible as accelerating to the speed of light.

Every living thing in Seth's world is in a state of perpetual migration as they follow the sun's shifting orbit and the narrow habitable zone it creates. Cities are being constantly disassembled at one edge and rebuilt at the other, with surveyors mapping safe routes ahead.

But when Seth and Theo join an expedition to the edge of the habitable zone, they discover a terrifying threat: a fissure in the surface of the world, so deep and wide that no one can perceive its limits. As the habitable zone continues to move, the migration will soon be blocked by this unbridgeable void, and the expedition has only one option to save its city from annihilation: descend into the unknown.

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/2017, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/26/2017, Page 0

About the author

Greg Egan is a computer programmer, and the author of the acclaimed SF novels Permutation City, Diaspora, Teranesia, Quarantine, and the Orthogonal trilogy, all published by Night Shade Books. He has won the Hugo Award as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Egan's short fiction has been published in a variety of places, including Interzone, Asimov's, and Nature. He lives in Australia.

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