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Coming Home
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 147220333X
- ISBN 13
- 9781472203335
- Seller
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chorleywood, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Headline, 2015. Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. First Edition. B Format Paperback. good condition paperback copy, COMING HOME, from veteran SF author Jack McDevitt, brings together interstellar travel, an 8,000-year-old mystery, and a dramatic mission to rescue 3,000 stranded spaceship passengers . The logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke Stephen KingIt s 1435 on Alex Benedict s world Rimway, eleven years since 3000 passengers boarded the Capella. The interstellar cruise ship is trapped in a transdimensional space warp, frozen in time. Just a few days have passed on board, and its inhabitants are oblivious to having lost the lives they knew. There is hope for a high-profile rescue attempt, but if it fails they may all die.As the Capella effort becomes increasingly difficult, Alex comes across a rare artifact dating back to the original NASA interstellar ships. The discovery arouses suspicions and Alex and his pilot Chase can uncover the truth only by returning to the museum-like planet Earth. As Chase is pulled into the Capella rescue mission, the entire human race watches and waits.
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Details
- Bookseller
- krokodile books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009889
- Title
- Coming Home
- Author
- Mcdevitt, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 147220333X
- ISBN 13
- 9781472203335
- Publisher
- Headline
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2015
- Size
- B Format Paperback
- Keywords
- Jack Macdevitt
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dealing in first editions of modern literature,
illustrated books and philosophy. Krokodile Rare
Books opened for business with rare and
secondhand books in the year 2000.
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