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Title: The Merchants of Souls Title Record # 20956
Author: John Barnes
Date: 2001-11-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Thousand Cultures
Series Number: 3
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: From the flaps of the Tor first edition: "Giraut Leones, special agent for the shadowy instrumentality in charge of reintegrating humanity's sundered fragments, had been betrayed by his closest friend and superior. The result was the destruction of the planet Briand and the end of Giraut's marriage. Giraut swore then that he would never work for the Office of Special Projects again - but now he must. Now a new movement on Earth seeks to use the recorded personalities of the dead as helpless virtual-reality playthings. To the worlds of the interstellar Thousand Cultures, where the reborn are accepted as normal citizens, it's a monstrous crime and reinforces their distaste for Earth, which they consider the stagnant heart of humanity. If Giraut cannot stop Earth from ratifying its plans, the tenuous structure of interstellar human civilization will collapse Complicating matters, Giraut's brain now hosts a second consciousness - the revived consciousness of his old, long-dead friend Raimbaut. Together Giraut and Raimbaut must confront their shared past while struggling with a deadly present."
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Awards

Place Year and Award Category
16 2002 Locus Best SF Novel

Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Merchants of Souls 2001-11-00 John Barnes Tor 0-312-89076-1
$25.95?$: US dollar
398
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel John Harris Checkmark
The Merchants of Souls 2002-02-00 John Barnes Tor / SFBC 15982
$12.99?$: US dollar
398
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel John Harris Checkmark
The Merchants of Souls 2002-11-00 John Barnes Tor 0-812-58969-6
$7.99?$: US dollar
398
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel John Harris Checkmark
The Merchants of Souls date unknown John Barnes Tor 978-1-4299-7064-8
$7.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
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