Title: Adiamante
Title Record # 7172
Author: L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Date: 1996-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: pollution (1), diplomacy (1), space opera (1), ecology (1) Add Tags
Author: L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Date: 1996-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: From the flaps of the first edition: In the far future, Earth is just one planet inhabited by humanity, the capital of a long-abandoned interstellar empire. Having renounced the arrogance and pride of empire, the people of Earth have built a new society based on a rigid set of principles that stress environmental conservation and nonaggression. Slowly the planet is recovering from millennia of selfish exploitation and the destruction of wars.
Suddenly a former colony's fleet of twelve warships built of nearly indestructible adiamante appears in orbit and tries to intimidate the people of Earth into submission. The people of Earth will not surrender, but their principles also don't allow them to take offensive measures until the fleet actually attacks.
Ecktor deJanes is the newly appointed planetary coordinator and has the terrible responsibility of protecting the lives of all the Earth's inhabitants. Somehow he must maintain his society's principles while preventing the fleet from turning the planet into a lifeless call of rock.
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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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Adiamante | 1996-10-00 | L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | Tor | 0-312-86021-8 | $23.95?$: US dollar |
316 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Kevin Murphy | |
Adiamante | 1998-03-00 | L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | Tor | 0-812-54558-3 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
312 | 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 | Kevin Murphy | |
Adiamante | 1999-08-00 | L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | Orbit | 1-85723-842-7 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
316 | 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 | Kevin Murphy | |
Adiamante | 2010-04-01 | L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | Tor | 978-1-4299-5456-3 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
Adiamante | date unknown | L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | Tor | 0-812-54558-3 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
312 | 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 | Kevin Murphy |
Reviews
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1997) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1997
- Review by Michael M. Levy (1997) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, February 1997
- Review by Stuart Carter (1999) in Vector 208