Marrow
By (Author) Robert Reed
Little, Brown Book Group
Orbit
20th August 2001
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.54
Paperback
512
Width 108mm, Height 178mm
41g
The Ship has travelled the universe for longer than any of the near-immortal crew can recall, its true purpose and origins unknown. It is larger than many planets, housing thousands of alien races and just as many secrets.
Now one of those secrets has been discovered: at the centre of the Ship is ... a planet. Marrow. But when a team of the Ship's best and brightest are sent down to investigate, will they return with the origins of the Ship - or will they bring doom to everyone on board 'MARROW is an extraordinary and extraordinarily intelligent novel stuffed with wonder and wit ... should elevate him to the ranks of the very best writers of the genre' INTERZONEFor more information on this and other Orbit books, visit the website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk'It's an exhilarating ride, in the hands of an author whose aspiration literally knows no bounds' THE NEW YORK TIMES 'MARROW is relentless, taking on vast reaches of space and time with a giant ship like none you've ever seen. A bold work by a visionary writer' DAVID BRIN
Robert Reed is the author of THE NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book BEYOND THE VEIL OF STARS and more than a dozen other SF novels. He has also written a number of stories that have been finalists for Hugo and Nebula Awards.