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Orion shall rise / Poul Anderson.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Anderson, P. 22
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weapons--Fiction.
- Weapons.
- Outer space--Fiction.
- Outer space.
- Earth (Planet)--Fiction.
- Earth (Planet).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 471 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Distribution:
- New York : Distributed by Simon and Schuster.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Timescape Books, [1983]
- Summary:
- After nuclear weapons ravaged the Earth, only Skyholm, a huge solar-powered station floating above Europe, remains in possession of high technology. But as Skyholm is seized by a religious faction, a young noble escapes to the ground below and joins a group who conspire to use the power of the atom, outlawed for centuries, to regain the lost heritage of space flight.
- Notes:
- Edition statement from jacket.
- Jacket illustration by Attila Hejja.
- First printing has gutter code "N27" on page 470, indicates a printing in July 1983.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy wanting dustjacket. Has gutter code.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 215237
- OCLC:
- 9754641
- Publisher Number:
- 04617 Science Fiction Book Club
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