It has been nearly 100 years since the Apollo moon landings, when Jack and Vladimir, two astronauts on a mission to Venus, discover a mysterious void related to indigenous life on the planet. Subsequently more voids are detected on Earth, Mars, Titan, and, quite ominously, inside a planetoid emergin
A scientific romance: a novel
โ Scribed by Ronald Wright
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada;Knopf Canada
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 224 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- London (England);Toronto;England;London
- ISBN
- 0307366340
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In this critically acclaimed and bestselling novel, Ronald Wright has fashioned a story for our times, an unforgettable chronicle of love, plague and time travel in the tradition ofNineteen Eighty-FourandThe Handmaid's Tale.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
โฆ Subjects
Historical Fiction
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