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Lockstep by Karl Schroeder (2014, Hardcover)
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Karl Schroeder. SIGNED by Karl Schroeder on the Title Page. I have lots of books by Karl Schroeder and other authors. Book Condition: Near Fine. A 1st Edition /1st Printing. Boards Are Clean - Not Bumped, Interior Is Clean and Legible and Not Remaindered.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-100765337266
ISBN-139780765337269
eBay Product ID (ePID)166528858
Product Key Features
Book TitleLockstep
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicScience Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / General
GenreFiction
AuthorKarl Schroeder
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2013-025526
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Karl Schroeder is one of our best hard sf writers. He takes us this time to the shadow worlds far from suns, showing how humanity can colonize even such cold spaces. The details feel right, action is fast, and some human issues never change." -Gregory Benford, author of Timescape "One of the best ways to think about the future is to create something to think with-such as a machine, a scenario, or a story. There are people who do this for a living: futurists, for instance, and writers of speculative fiction (SF). The Canadian SF writer Karl Schroeder is both." - The Atlantic "Brings the Virga saga to an operatic, crashing fina≤ a splendid climax to the hard SF saga of the decade!" -Charles Stross, author of the Merchant Princes Series, on Ashes of Candesce "I loved it. It never slowed down."-Larry Niven, author of Ringworld, on Sun of Suns, For Karl Schroeder"One of the best ways to think about the future is to create something to think with-such as a machine, a scenario, or a story. There are people who do this for a living: futurists, for instance, and writers of speculative fiction (SF). The Canadian SF writer Karl Schroeder is both." - The Atlantic "Brings the Virga saga to an operatic, crashing fina≤ a splendid climax to the hard SF saga of the decade!" -Charles Stross, author of the Merchant Princes Series, on Ashes of Candesce "I loved it. It never slowed down."-Larry Niven, author of Ringworld, on Sun of Suns
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisWhen seventeen-year-old Toby McGonigal finds himself lost in space, separated from his family, he expects his next drift into cold sleep to be his last. After all, the planet he's orbiting is frozen and sunless, and the cities are dead. But when Toby wakes again, he's surprised to discover a thriving planet, a strange and prosperous galaxy, and something stranger still--that he's been asleep for 14,000 years. Welcome to the Lockstep Empire, where civilization is kept alive by careful hibernation. Here cold sleeps can last decades and waking moments mere weeks. Its citizens survive for millennia, traveling asleep on long voyages between worlds. Not only is Lockstep the new center of the galaxy, but Toby is shocked to learn that the Empire is still ruled by its founding family: his own. Toby's brother Peter has become a terrible tyrant. Suspicious of the return of his long-lost brother, whose rightful inheritance also controls the lockstep hibernation cycles, Peter sees Toby as a threat to his regime. Now, with the help of a lockstep girl named Corva, Toby must survive the forces of this new Empire, outwit his siblings, and save human civilization. Karl Schroeder's Lockstep is a grand innovation in hard Science Fiction space opera.
LC Classification NumberPR9199.3.S269L63
