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Is part of The Sentients of Orion Marianne de Pierres , 2007 series - author novel (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Dark Space
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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)

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Notes

  • 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!
  • Dedication: Rosemary Mina de Pierres (nee Vincent) 1926-2006 'A wild and precious life'
  • 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

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Orbit ,
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      Extent: 416p.
      ISBN: 9781841494289 (pbk), 1841494283 (pbk)

Works about this Work

Untitled Dirk Flinthart , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , no. 32 2008; (p. 83-84)

— Review of Dark Space Marianne de Pierres , 2007 single work novel
Out of This World Jason Nahrung , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 14-15 May 2007; (p. 19)
Untitled Keith Stevenson , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction , no. 40 2007; (p. 97-98)

— Review of Dark Space Marianne de Pierres , 2007 single work novel
Take Three Colin Steele , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 9 September 2007; (p. 21)

— Review of Saturn Returns Sean Williams , 2007 single work novel ; Dark Space Marianne de Pierres , 2007 single work novel
Untitled Tim Lloyd , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 September 2007; (p. 10)

— Review of Dark Space Marianne de Pierres , 2007 single work novel
Book of the Week Lucy Sussex , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 1 July 2007; (p. 35)

— Review of Dark Space Marianne de Pierres , 2007 single work novel
Vide Ion Newcombe , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodean SF , June-July no. 109 2007;

— Review of Dark Space Marianne de Pierres , 2007 single work novel
Books Fiction Terry Oberg , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 - 8 July 2007; (p. 22)

— Review of Dark Space Marianne de Pierres , 2007 single work novel
Universal Mysteries Van Ikin , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 August 2007; (p. 34)

— Review of Dark Space Marianne de Pierres , 2007 single work novel ; The Whisper of Leaves Karen Simpson Nikakis , 2007 single work novel
Untitled Tim Lloyd , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 September 2007; (p. 10)

— Review of Dark Space Marianne de Pierres , 2007 single work novel
Out of This World Jason Nahrung , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 14-15 May 2007; (p. 19)
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