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ISBN 0-688-12757-6 (US hbk)
novel, science fiction, future history
Far future. 3rd novel. Copyright 1991. Shortlisted for the Arthur C.Clarke Award. The main character Dorothy Yoshida featured in a previous novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars . Several short stories (see the collection The King of the Hill for titles and publishing details) take place in the same future.
"For Dorothy Yoshida -- abused earthborn Talent and prime player in the secret history of the galaxy -- the seeds of destiny were sown a million years in the past...when a giant sun exploded, and vast civilizations died in the subsequent blood feuding of ten thousand alien family nations. Or perhaps it all began a dozen years before her birth -- when a Greater Brazilian flyby drone was destroyed above a red dwarf star, drawing an uncomprehending human race into a thousand-millennia-old genocidal conflict that was not their own.
"And now Dorothy's extraordinary mental ability to touch the past and the future has made her the pawn of a wealthy immortal's vengeance -- rocketing her to the black hole at the core of the galaxy, and into the perilous heart of a fanatical religious sect's relentless search for hidden gods.
"For it is here that the final battle must ultimately be fought against a fearsome, invisible Enemy who has harnessed the powers of creation to obliterate a universe. And it is Dorothy Yoshida who stands at the frontlines of the war for tomorrow -- unknowingly possessing the answers to the mysteries of eternity... and the key to preventing the apocalyptic unraveling of space and time." [jacket blurb, US hbk, 1993]
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