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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1991

ISBN
  
0-246-13718-5

Author
  
Robert Silverberg

Cover artist
  
Jim Burns

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
363 pp

Originally published
  
1991

Publisher
  
Grafton

OCLC
  
59782573

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Media type
  
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)

Genres
  
Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Robert Silverberg books, Science Fiction books

The Face of the Waters is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg, first published in 1991.

Plot introduction

The Face of the Waters takes place deep in the future, on a penal colony, inhabited by convicts and their progeny. The planet is Hydros, an ocean planet whose inhabitants live on artificial floating islands.

After a human offense against the natives of Hydros, the human population of the island of Sorve are ordered to leave. Forbidden on all other islands, in a flotilla of ships they seek the semi-mythical island of the Face of the Waters. During their journey they are forced to learn more about themselves, leading to questions about both religion and the purpose of Man. At the end of the novel Robert Silverberg addresses what it means to be human.

References

The Face of the Waters Wikipedia