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Wall Around a Star

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1983
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Prologue
22 chapters
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 Cuckoo*
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A science fiction series by Frederick Pohl and Jack Williamson

1) Farthest Star
2) Wall Around a Star
Copyright © 1983 by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
No dedication.
Something is coming.
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Added: 25-Aug-2023
Last Updated: 15-Nov-2023

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 01-Jan-1983
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-1983
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
£3.75
Pages*:
275
Catalog ID:
28995
Internal ID:
33360
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-345-28995-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-345-28995-7
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
David B Mattingly  - Cover Artist
HE WAS A RELUCTANT PASSENGER
ON A VOYAGE TO SAVE THE GALAXY...


Butterflylike aliens had brought Earth into the galactic culture.  But she was a poor relation, valued only for the living human bodies she rented out for whatever purposes her nonhuman customers desired.

Then Cuckoo was discovered.  Millions of miles in diameter, less dense than air, it had a solid surface that was home to many races - inclusing a species of Man.  And that was odd, for Cuckoo was from another galaxy!

Suddenly, one human, a linguist, became very important.  If Jen Babylon could solve the mystery of Cuckoo's records he might raise humanity's standing among the older races - but he might also save the galaxy!

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Author(s)

Frederik Pohl  
Birth: 26 Nov 1919 Brooklyn, NY, USA
Death: 02 Sep 2013 Palatine, IL, USA

Notes:
From the "About the Author" page in "The Siege of Eternity":

A mutliple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, Frederik Pohl has done just about everything one can do in the science-fiction field.  His most famous work is undoubtedly the novel Gateway, which won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for best SF novel.  Man Plus won the Nebula Award.  His mature work is marked by a serious intellectual agenda and strongly held sociopolitical beliefs, without sacrificing narrative drive.  In addition to his successful solo fiction, Pohl has collaborated successfully with a variety of writers, including C. M. Kornbluth and Jack Williamson.  A Pohl/Kornbluth collabortation, The Space Merchants, is a long-time classic of satiric science fiction.  The Starchild Trilogy with Williamson is one of the more notable collaborations in the field.  Pohl has been a magazine editor in the field since he was very young, piloting World of If to three successive Hugos for Best Magazine.  He also has edited original-story anthologies, including the early and notable Star series of the early 1950s.  He has at various times been a literary agent, and editor of lines of science fiction books, and a president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.  For a number of years he has been active in the World SF movement.  He and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Hull, a prominent academic active in the Science Fiction Research Association, live outside Chicago, Illinois.

Jack Williamson  

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