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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Spectra
Publication date
August 1, 2004
Pages
310
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780553382952
ISBN-10
0553382950
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
0.75 lbs.
Original list price
$16.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The stories of three people--modern-day Michael Kearney who plays a part in a discovery that will make interstellar travel possible; Seria Mau Genlicher, a spaceship pilot modified to interact directly with her ship; and Ed Chainese, a down-and-out drifter and adventurer, living in New Venusport--are linked by the mysteries of the Kefahuchi Tract. Original. 25,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In M. John Harrisonâs dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where thereâs only one thing more mysterious than darkness.
In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill. He is seeking escape in a future that doesnâ t yet existâa quantum world that he and his physicist partner hope to access through a breach of time and space itself. In this future, Seria Mau Genlicher has already sacrificed her body to merge into the systems of her starship, the White Cat. But the âinhumanâ K-ship captain has gone rogue, pirating the galaxy while playing cat and mouse with the authorities who made her what she is. In this future, Ed Chianese, a drifter and adventurer, has ridden dynaflow ships, run old alien mazes, surfed stellar envelopes. He âwent deepââand lived to tell about it. Once crazy for life, heâs now just a twink on New Venusport, addicted to the bizarre alternate realities found in the tanksâand in debt to all the wrong people.
Haunting them all through this maze of menace and mystery is the shadowy presence of the Shranderâand three enigmatic clues left on the barren surface of an asteroid under an ocean of light known as the Kefahuchi Tract: a deserted spaceship, a pair of bone dice, and a human skeleton.
In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill. He is seeking escape in a future that doesnâ t yet existâa quantum world that he and his physicist partner hope to access through a breach of time and space itself. In this future, Seria Mau Genlicher has already sacrificed her body to merge into the systems of her starship, the White Cat. But the âinhumanâ K-ship captain has gone rogue, pirating the galaxy while playing cat and mouse with the authorities who made her what she is. In this future, Ed Chianese, a drifter and adventurer, has ridden dynaflow ships, run old alien mazes, surfed stellar envelopes. He âwent deepââand lived to tell about it. Once crazy for life, heâs now just a twink on New Venusport, addicted to the bizarre alternate realities found in the tanksâand in debt to all the wrong people.
Haunting them all through this maze of menace and mystery is the shadowy presence of the Shranderâand three enigmatic clues left on the barren surface of an asteroid under an ocean of light known as the Kefahuchi Tract: a deserted spaceship, a pair of bone dice, and a human skeleton.
Editions
Paperback
from Spectra (May 1, 2007)
9780553587333 | details & prices | 418 pages | 4.00 × 6.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $7.99
About: The stories of three people--modern-day Michael Kearney who plays a part in a discovery that will make interstellar travel possible; Seria Mau Genlicher, a spaceship pilot modified to interact directly with her ship; and Ed Chainese, a down-and-out drifter and adventurer, living in New Venusport--are linked by the mysteries of the Kefahuchi Tract.
About: The stories of three people--modern-day Michael Kearney who plays a part in a discovery that will make interstellar travel possible; Seria Mau Genlicher, a spaceship pilot modified to interact directly with her ship; and Ed Chainese, a down-and-out drifter and adventurer, living in New Venusport--are linked by the mysteries of the Kefahuchi Tract.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Spectra (August 1, 2004)
9780553382952 | details & prices | 310 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $16.00
About: The stories of three people--modern-day Michael Kearney, a serial killer; Seria Mau Genlicher, a spaceship pilot; and Ed Chainese, a down-and-out drifter--are linked by the mysteries of the Kefahuchi Tract.
About: The stories of three people--modern-day Michael Kearney, a serial killer; Seria Mau Genlicher, a spaceship pilot; and Ed Chainese, a down-and-out drifter--are linked by the mysteries of the Kefahuchi Tract.
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