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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
March 1997

ISBN
  
978-0-380-97476-4

Author
  
Damien Broderick

Publisher
  
HarperCollins

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
342 pp (first edition)

Originally published
  
March 1997

Genre
  
Science Fiction

Cover artist
  
Chris Moore

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Awards
  
Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel

Similar
  
Damien Broderick books, Other books

The White Abacus is a 1997 science fiction novel by Damien Broderick. It follows the story of Telmah Lord Cima who travels to Earth from a far-off world and becomes friends with a computer-augmented being called Ratio.

Background

The White Abacus was first published in the United States in March 1997 by Avon Eos in hardback and trade paperback formats. In April 1998 it was republished in mass market paperback format. The White Abacus won the 1997 Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel and the 1998 Ditmar Award for best Australian long fiction.

References

The White Abacus Wikipedia