Title: To Fear the Light
Title Record # 5328
Authors: A. J. Austin and Ben Bova
Date: 1994-12-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: To Save the Sun
Series Number: 2
Language: English
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Authors: A. J. Austin and Ben Bova
Date: 1994-12-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: To Save the Sun
Series Number: 2
Language: English
Synopsis: From the flaps of the Tor first edition: "In To Save the Sun Ben Bova and A. J. Austin told the epic tale of Adela de Montgarde, the brilliant astrophysicist who conceived the centuries-long plan to forestall the death of Earth's sun, thus preserving the original genetic material of the Empire of the Hundred Worlds - and of the Emperors who enabled her visionary plan.
Now, choosing to leave behind the man she loved, Adela has undergone cold sleep, returning two hundred years later to oversee the final stages of her project. She awakens to an Empire transformed: her son Eric is Emperor, faster-than-light travel has finally been achieved, and humanity has spilled out into innumerable self-sufficient new planets far beyond the Empire's Hundred Worlds.
More ominously, there are the alien Sarpans, bearing gifts of high technology. Are they as benevolent as they seem, or are they the threat the popular demagogue Jephthah claims they are? Several odd accidents add fuel to the flames fanned by Jephthah's rhetoric. To make matters worse, an investigation on a far planet suggests the existence of yet another alien race...
In the twilight of the Empire, remnants of the old regime vie with the plots and counterplots of factions human and alien alike; meanwhile, Adela's awesome feat of stellar engineering approaches its final fruition: the preservation and re-invigoration of the fearsome light at the heart of humanity's first solar system... the saving of Earth's son."
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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To Fear the Light | 1994-12-00 | A. J. Austin, Ben Bova | Tor | 0-312-85449-8 | $21.95?$: US dollar |
352 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | John Berkey | |
To Fear the Light | 1996-02-00 | A. J. Austin, Ben Bova | Tor | 0-812-52382-2 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
438 | 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 Berkey | |
To Fear The Light | 2011-04-00 | A. J. Austin, Ben Bova | Tor | 978-1-4299-3203-5 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1995) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 1995