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* One of the greatest sense-of-wonder novels of all time, full of daring scientific specualtion and tense human drama * 'Magnificent... A sense of timelessness, human eternity, and the order of the cosmos... builds to an overpowering climax' Barry Malzberg * 'Imaginative and at times brilliant' The Sunday Times * 'Fascinating... Strikingly well-conceived... Convincingly sustained' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

About the Author

Poul Anderson was born in 1926 in Pennsylvania and educated at the University of Minnesota where he gained a degree in physics in 1948. Among his many fine novels are Brain Wave, The Avatar, War of the Wing-Men and The Boat of a Million Years.