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Foreigner : a novel of first contact / C.J. Cherryh.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cherryh, C. J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space colonies--Fiction.
- Space colonies.
- Life on other planets--Fiction.
- Life on other planets.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 328 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : DAW Books, [1994]
- Summary:
- The story of humans stranded on an alien planet where registered assassination is a way of life. They are the descendants of a space ship which lost its way 500 years earlier. They live on an island and the only contact they are allowed with the mainland is through one human, the foreigner of the novel.
- Notes:
- Jacket painting by Michael Whelan.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 14207
- ISBN:
- 0886775906
- 9780886775902
- OCLC:
- 30490880
- Publisher Number:
- 03052 Science Fiction Book Club
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