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The Sky Road

The Sky Road

by Ken MacLeod

2001FictionExplorationExploration of outer spaceFiction, science fiction, generalScience fiction
3.5
Open Library
Open Library

First lines

She walked through the fair in the light of a northern summer evening, looking for me.

About this book

Centuries after the catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And Clovis, a young scholar working in the spaceship-construction yard, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious new lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating the ship's future from the dark archives of the past. A past in which, centuries before, Myra Godwin faced the end of a different space age--her rockets redundant, her people rebellious, and her borders defenseless against the Sino-Soviet Union. As Myra appealed to the crumbling West for help, she found history turning on her own strange past--and on the terrible decisions she faces now. The Sky Road is a fireworks display, a bravura performance, and the most amazing novel yet by one of the powerful new voices in science fiction.

Themes & subjects

FictionExplorationExploration of outer spaceFiction, science fiction, generalScience fictionSpace flight
First published 2001

About the author

Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod

2 August 1954

Author

Ken MacLeod

First published

2001

Pages

304

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

11

Language

English

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

ISBN

9781466843325

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