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Strings

by Dave Duncan

Science FictionFictionFiction, science fiction, action & adventureFiction, fantasy, generalScientists, fiction
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Alya has an almost magical talent. Her hunches are never wrong. The scientists of planet 4-I want to use her talent and promise her a spot on the next offworld colonization team in return for her assessment of the potential of the latest worlds they've discovered. But Alya meets Cedric, the grandson of the brilliant and tyrannical director of 4-I and she begins to doubt her own intuition.Cedric has dreamed of becoming a scout and exploring new worlds and when he meets Alya he is more determined than ever to leave 4-I, with her. His grandmother needs him on 4-I, though, because she has schemes afoot to protect her planet and to cover up a murder and she does not intend to let him go. However, she has underestimated her grandson—and the young woman whose intuition is so strong and whose destiny is linked to Cedric's.

Themes & subjects

Science FictionFictionFiction, science fiction, action & adventureFiction, fantasy, generalScientists, fiction

About the author

Dave Duncan
Dave Duncan

30 June 1933

David John Duncan is an award-winning Scottish Canadian fantasy and science fiction author. He made his first sale (A Rose Red City) two years later in 1986 at the age of 53, just two weeks after his 31 year career as a geologist came to an end due to a slump in the oil business, at which point he switched to full-time writing. Source: wikipedia

Author

Dave Duncan

Pages

311

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

6

Language

English

Publisher

Del Rey Books

ISBN

9780345361912

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