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Garfinkle, Richard

Celestial Matters

Tor/Tom Doherty Associates,, 1996

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Year of publication
1996
ISBN
0312859341
Place of printing
New York
Author
Garfinkle, Richard
Publishers
Tor/Tom Doherty Associates,
Keyword
FICTION FANTASY ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE PTOLEMY SCIENCE FICTION, HELLENISTIC EMPIRE
Cover description
New
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

Celestial Matters is a startling novel of hard SF set in an alternative Ptolemaic universe . In this novel, the solar system and stars progress outward in concentric cirCles, and in this alternate universe known as the Ptolemaic Universe, the Greek empire of Alexander the Great has lasted for a thousand years. And now a starship journeys to the center of the universe to bring back the ultimate weapon: a fiery piece of sun matter.

Edizione: 1st.us ed.