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Language English Publisher Del Rey/Ballantine Media type Print (Hardcover) Originally published September 1983 Genre Science Fiction Followed by The Tides of Time | 3.7/5 Goodreads Series Time Publication date Sep 1983 Pages 288 pp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Crucible of Time is a fix-up science fiction novel by John Brunner. It was first published in 1983.
Contents
Serials
Parts 1 and 2 appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine as "The Fire is Lit" (Sep 1982) and "Fusing and Refusing" (Jan 1983).
Plot
The novel deals with the efforts of an alien species to escape their homeworld, whose system is passing through a cloud of interstellar debris, resulting in a high rate of in-falling matter. The species' unique biology and their biological technology complicate matters.
Awards
References
The Crucible of Time Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA