From Nebula and Hugo Award - nominated Carolyn Ives Gilman comes Dark Orbit, a compelling novel featuring alien contact, mystery, and murder.
Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate. Thora was once a member of the interplanetary elite, but since her prophetic delusions helped mobilize a revolt on Orem, she's been banished to the farthest reaches of space, because of the risk that her very presence could revive unrest.
Upon arrival, the team finds an extraordinary crystalline planet, laden with dark matter. Then a crew member is murdered and Thora mysteriously disappears. Thought to be uninhabited, the planet is in fact home to a blind, sentient species whose members navigate their world with a bizarre vocabulary and extrasensory perceptions.
Lost in the deep crevasses of the planet among these people, Thora must battle her demons and learn to comprehend the native inhabitants in order to find her crewmates and warn them of an impending danger. But her most difficult task may lie in persuading the crew that some powers lie beyond the boundaries of science.
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Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate. Thora was once a member of the interplanetary elite, but since her prophetic delusions helped mobilize a revolt on Orem, she's been banished to the farthest reaches of space, because of the risk that her very presence could revive unrest.
Upon arrival, the team finds an extraordinary crystalline planet, laden with dark matter. Then a crew member is murdered and Thora mysteriously disappears. Thought to be uninhabited, the planet is in fact home to a blind, sentient species whose members navigate their world with a bizarre vocabulary and extrasensory perceptions.
Lost in the deep crevasses of the planet among these people, Thora must battle her demons and learn to comprehend the native inhabitants in order to find her crewmates and warn them of an impending danger. But her most difficult task may lie in persuading the crew that some powers lie beyond the boundaries of science.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Praise for this book
"Dark Orbit is intellectually daring, brilliant imagined, strongly felt. This one's a winner." - Ursula K Le Guin
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Hardback Editions
July 2015 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
May 2016 : USA Paperback
June 1999 : USA Mass Market Paperback
Title: Dark Orbit
Author(s): C Gilman
ISBN: 0-380-79800-X / 978-0-380-79800-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Mass Market
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August 2018 : MP3 CD
July 2011 : USA Audio CD
July 2011 : USA Audio CD
July 2011 : USA MP3 CD
July 2015 : USA Audio edition

Title: Dark Orbit
Author(s): Carolyn Ives Gilman
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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July 2015 : Canada Audio edition

Title: Dark Orbit
Author(s): Carolyn Ives Gilman
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Availability: Amazon CA
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July 2015 : USA, Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition