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'While drifting in space, lost, due to navigational failure, a mineral scout discovers God. When word gets out, academics from the studiums across Orion scramble to gain the Entity's favour. However, not all the sentients of Orion hold this 'god' in awe - some, like the philosophers of Scolar and the Transhumans of Extropy are deeply suspicious. Onto the grand stage of inter-planetary academic politics, intellectual conceit and dubious theology walks Baronessa Mira Fedor. Her planet has been torn apart by the invasion of a race of giant tardigrades. Only the Orion League of Sentient Species can lend aid, but OLOSS are preoccupied with communicating with god. Mira, together with the larrikin, misogynist Jo-Jo Rasterovich, is left to her own resources to find help. In doing so she unmasks a galaxy-size intrigue. But will she live long enough to tell anyone...?' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Author's note: I have taken extreme liberties with the Italian language. Please do not look for grammatical accuracy - you will not find it. This is the far, far future!
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Dedication: Rosemary Mina de Pierres (nee Vincent) 1926-2006 'A wild and precious life'
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Epigraph: The awful shadow of some unseen Power...(etc) - Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1816
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
2008
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— Appears in: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , no. 32 2008; (p. 83-84)
— Review of Dark Space 2007 single work novel -
Out of This World
2007
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— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 14-15 May 2007; (p. 19) -
Untitled
2007
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— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction , no. 40 2007; (p. 97-98)
— Review of Dark Space 2007 single work novel -
Take Three
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 9 September 2007; (p. 21)
— Review of Saturn Returns 2007 single work novel ; Dark Space 2007 single work novel -
Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 September 2007; (p. 10)
— Review of Dark Space 2007 single work novel
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Book of the Week
2007
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 1 July 2007; (p. 35)
— Review of Dark Space 2007 single work novel -
Vide
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodean SF , June-July no. 109 2007;
— Review of Dark Space 2007 single work novel -
Books Fiction
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 - 8 July 2007; (p. 22)
— Review of Dark Space 2007 single work novel -
Universal Mysteries
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 August 2007; (p. 34)
— Review of Dark Space 2007 single work novel ; The Whisper of Leaves 2007 single work novel -
Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 September 2007; (p. 10)
— Review of Dark Space 2007 single work novel -
Out of This World
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 14-15 May 2007; (p. 19)
Awards
- 2008 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — Best Novel
- 2007 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Science Fiction Division — Best Novel