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The Sky So Big and Black by John Barnes6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mint, new, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust cover. ![]() This is the fourth book in his Century Next Door series. He is the author of DIRECTIVE 51, DAYBREA ZERO, and THE LAST PRESIDENT, as well as THE RETURN with Buzz Aldrin. John Barnes is a multiple Hugo and Nebula award nominee. What happens next will change Terpsichore, will change Mars, and will open the door to a new chapter in the history of intelligent beings in the solar system. He does want her along on his next long trip but only to conduct a group of younger kids from the highlands at Mars's equator back to school in Wells City. He has other ideas: he wants her to stay in school. She wants to quit school and become, like her father, an ecoprospector. Terpsichore Murray is growing up on Mars. Mars, meanwhile, is slowly terraforming, and the human settlers there are still free of One True's control.but they need pressure suits to survive outside, and it will be a century or more before the planet's fit for terrestrial life. At the end of the twenty-first century, Earth is under the control of a single intelligence, the apparently benign One True. ![]()
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