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Orbital Resonance

(1991)
(The first book in the Century Next Door series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
Nebula Awards Best Novel (nominee)
From the 1991 Nebula Award nominee who "may well be the new writer on whom the mantle of Robert Heinlein falls" (Poul Anderson). Young Melpomene Murray lives on an asteroid colony, thousands of miles from an Earth nearly destroyed by disease, war, and pollution. She has been trained since birth to lead mankind into the future. But Melpomene has plans of her own . . .

Genre: Science Fiction

Praise for this book

"John Barnes carries us away the way Heinlein used to do it." - Orson Scott Card


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