Starplex (Robert Sawyer) - Softcover

Sawyer, Robert J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889954445 ISBN 13: 9780889954441

Publisher: Red Deer Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Aurora Award-winning Science-fiction Classic back in Print!

The only novel from its year to be nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

The giant exploration starship Starplex - crewed by humans, dolphins, and extraterrestrials - embarks on a journey covering billions of years of time and millions of light-years of space.

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Review:

"The ultimate grand tour!" - Jack McDevitt

"For big-time interstellar adventure, look no farther."
-Gregory Benford

"Starplex should gladden the hearts of readers who complain that nobody's writing real science fiction anymore, the kind of story that has faster-than-light spaceships and far-off planets and interstellar combat. Sawyer deftly juggles half a dozen sweeping questions of cosmology (not to mention everyday ethics and morality) while keeping the story moving ahead full speed.
Enjoy."
-Asimov's Science Fiction

"Highly recommended."
-Library Journal

"The ultimate grand tour!" - Jack McDevitt

"For big-time interstellar adventure, look no farther."
-Gregory Benford

"Starplex should gladden the hearts of readers who complain that nobody's writing real science fiction anymore, the kind of story that has faster-than-light spaceships and far-off planets and interstellar combat. Sawyer deftly juggles half a dozen sweeping questions of cosmology (not to mention everyday ethics and morality) while keeping the story moving ahead full speed.
Enjoy."
-Asimov's Science Fiction

"Highly recommended."
-Library Journal

"The ultimate grand tour!" - Jack McDevitt

"For big-time interstellar adventure, look no farther."
-Gregory Benford

"Starplex should gladden the hearts of readers who complain that nobody's writing real science fiction anymore, the kind of story that has faster-than-light spaceships and far-off planets and interstellar combat. Sawyer deftly juggles half a dozen sweeping questions of cosmology (not to mention everyday ethics and morality) while keeping the story moving ahead full speed.
Enjoy."
-Asimov's Science Fiction

"Highly recommended."
-Library Journal

From the Author:

Review excerpts and award nominations for STARPLEX

STARPLEX by Robert J. Sawyer is:

* A current finalist, Hugo Award, Best Novel of 1996

* A finalist, Nebula Award, Best Novel of 1996

* Winner of the CompuServe SF Forum's HOMer Award, Best Novel of 1996

* Current Finalist, Aurora Award, Best English-Language Novel of 1996

* A selection of the Science Fiction Book Club.

REVIEW EXCERPTS:

ABOUT BOOKS: "Very, very cool. This is a book not to be missed."

ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION: "Sawyer's latest should gladden the hearts of readers who complain that nobody's writing _real science fiction_ anymore, the kind of story that has faster-than-light spaceships and far-off planets and interstellar combat and all the neat things they gobbled up so greedily when "Doc" Smith was dealing them out. Here's a story with plenty of slam-bang action but no shortage of material to attract thinking readers, either. Sawyer deftly juggles half a dozen sweeping questions of cosmology (not to mention everyday ethics and morality) while keeping the story moving ahead full speed. His scientific ideas are nicely integrated into the plot, yet they also hint at larger metaphorical levels. Enjoy."

GREGORY BENFORD, author of FURIOUS GULF: "Complex but swift, inventive but real-feeling, with ideas coming thick and fast. For big-time interstellar adventure, look no farther."

THE HALIFAX CHRONICLE-HERALD: " Starplex appears to be traditional science fiction -- it takes place aboard a spaceship, and several characters are extraterrestrial -- but it's actually a rumination on several very deep questions, including: Where did we come from? Where are we going? And the deepest of the deep, Is there a God?"

LIBRARY JOURNAL: "An epic hard-science adventure tempered by human concerns. Highly recommended."

JACK MCDEVITT, author of ANCIENT SHORES: "An elegant intergalactic ride with Sawyer's signature mix of cosmic concepts and solid characterization."

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION: "An enormous grab bag of ideas -- and a whole lot of fun."

QUILL & QUIRE: "A swift, inventive, enjoyable book. Unexpected twists keep the plot moving briskly, but Sawyer is able to do this while raising intriguing philosophical issues."

SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE: "Excellent hard SF, with Sawyer tossing stars, people and time travel around with reckless abandon. One of the best SF novels of 1996."

SCI-FI WEEKLY: "An audacious engineering effort that makes Larry Niven's Ringworld look like a high-school science project."

THE TORONTO STAR: "Here, at last, is an ambitious attempt to exploit the possibilities that the science-fiction genre is capable of."

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Deer Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0889954445
• ISBN 13: 9780889954441
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304