Voyage to Alpha Centauri : a novel
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Published
San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2013].
ISBN
9781586178321 (hardback : acid-free paper), 1586178326 (hardback : acid-free paper)
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Carol Stream Public Library - Sci-Fi/Fantasy | SF/O'BRIEN, M. | On Shelf |
Glen Ellyn Public Library - Adult Fiction | FIC O'BRIEN, MICHAEL | On Shelf |
St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction | FIC OBRIEN | On Shelf |
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Published
San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2013].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
587 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781586178321 (hardback : acid-free paper), 1586178326 (hardback : acid-free paper)
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Description
Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael D. O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city", is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship. Hoyos has signed on as a passenger because he desires to escape the seemingly benign totalitarian government that controls everything on his home planet. He is a skeptical and quirky misanthropic humanist with old tragedies, loves, and hatreds that are secreted in his memory. The surprises that await him on the voyage-and its destination-will shatter all of his assumptions and point him to a true new horizon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
O'Brien, M. D. 1. (2013). Voyage to Alpha Centauri: a novel . Ignatius Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Brien, Michael D. 1948-. 2013. Voyage to Alpha Centauri: A Novel. Ignatius Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Brien, Michael D. 1948-. Voyage to Alpha Centauri: A Novel Ignatius Press, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)O'Brien, Michael D. 1948-. Voyage to Alpha Centauri: A Novel Ignatius Press, 2013.
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