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Like so many others, Ramon Espejo ran from the poverty and hopelessness of the Third World to the promise of a new world—joining a host of like-minded workers and dreamers aboard one of the great starships of the mysterious, repulsive Enye. But the life he found on the far-off planet of Sao Paulo was no better than the one he had abandoned.Tough, volatile, and angry—a luckless prospector hoping for that one rich strike that will make him wealthy—Ramon is content only when on his own out in the bush, far from the dirty, loud, bustling hive of humanity that he detests with sociopathic fervor.…

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Editions

11 editions · 3 languages
  • Hardcover · English · 2008
    Eos · 336 pages · 9780061373299
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    HarperCollins · 394 pages · 9780061569609
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    HarperCollins · 9780007236893
  • Hardcover · English · 2007
    Harper Voyager · 9780007260218
  • Paperback · English · 2007
    HarperVoyager · 9780007260232
  • Other · English · 2009
    HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061373305
LiteratureFictionScience FictionSpace coloniesHuman-alien encountersFiction, science fiction, generalFiction, science fiction, space opera