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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Providence
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'A dazzling, inventive, and thought-provoking new novel from the ingenious author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon.

'Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson are astronauts captaining a new and supposedly indestructible ship in humanity's war against an alien race. Confined to the ship for years, each of them holding their own secrets, they are about to learn there are threats beyond the reach of human ingenuity--and that the true nature of reality might be the universe's greatest mystery.

'In this near future, our world is at war with another, and humanity is haunted by its one catastrophic loss--a nightmarish engagement that left a handful of survivors drifting home through space, wracked with PTSD. Public support for the war plummeted, and the military-industrial complex set its sights on a new goal: zero-casualty warfare, made possible by gleaming new ships called Providences, powered by AI.

'But when the latest-launched Providence suffers a surprising attack and contact with home is severed, Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson must confront the truth of the war they're fighting, the ship that brought them there, and the cosmos beyond.' (Publication summary) 

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      G. P. Putnam's Sons ,
      2020 .
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      Extent: 320p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 31st March 2020
      ISBN: 9780593085172
Form: audiobook
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hachette Australia , 2020 .
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      Extent: 9 hrs and 49 minsp.
      Note/s:
      • Published 31 March 2020
      ISBN: 9780733645174

Other Formats

  • Large print.
  • Dyslexic edition.

Works about this Work

Book Review: Providence by Max Barry Erich Mayer , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , June 2020;

— Review of Providence Max Barry , 2020 single work novel

'As a plot for a guns-a-blazing space opera, this novel could well be a huge success.'

[Review] Providence Rebecca Langham , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 133 2020;

— Review of Providence Max Barry , 2020 single work novel
Max Barry : Providence Thuy On , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 25 April - 1 May 2020;

— Review of Providence Max Barry , 2020 single work novel

'In this science-fiction thriller, Max Barry explores interplanetary travel, human–extraterrestrial close encounters and the relentless spin of warfare. Manned by a four-person crew, Providence Five is the latest warship that’s going into deepest, darkest space on a search-and-destroy mission. Typical of the genre, the enemy aliens in the novel are depicted as intelligent beings but are suitably heinous: nicknamed “Salamanders”, they live in hives and have “wide, lipless mouths … black, orblike eyes”, six limbs and a body of translucent resin. Their power lies in their teeming numbers and their cunning.'  (Introduction)

Max Barry : Providence Thuy On , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 25 April - 1 May 2020;

— Review of Providence Max Barry , 2020 single work novel

'In this science-fiction thriller, Max Barry explores interplanetary travel, human–extraterrestrial close encounters and the relentless spin of warfare. Manned by a four-person crew, Providence Five is the latest warship that’s going into deepest, darkest space on a search-and-destroy mission. Typical of the genre, the enemy aliens in the novel are depicted as intelligent beings but are suitably heinous: nicknamed “Salamanders”, they live in hives and have “wide, lipless mouths … black, orblike eyes”, six limbs and a body of translucent resin. Their power lies in their teeming numbers and their cunning.'  (Introduction)

[Review] Providence Rebecca Langham , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 133 2020;

— Review of Providence Max Barry , 2020 single work novel
Book Review: Providence by Max Barry Erich Mayer , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , June 2020;

— Review of Providence Max Barry , 2020 single work novel

'As a plot for a guns-a-blazing space opera, this novel could well be a huge success.'

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