The Folded Sky

Elizabeth Bear

£12.99

Information doesn’t want to be free. Information wants to vanish without a trace. Dr Song’s job is to stop that from happening. She’s an archinformist: a specialist historian whose job usually involves sitting at a console at her university job near the Galactic Core, sorting ancient documents and restoring corrupted files. But now, the research opportunity of a lifetime has sent her – and her family – halfway across the galaxy to save the archaeological find of the century: an ancient alien artificial intelligence called the Baomind. As vast as a stellar system, the Baomind orbits a dying red giant, and the star’s time has nearly ended. The remote research station and its small fleet of ships come under attack by fanatic Freeport pirates who believe that AI is an abomination that must be destroyed, putting lives at risk. Tens of thousands of light years from home, isolated from all help, Sunya is the only one who can save them all.

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Publish Date: 16/04/2026
ISBN: 9781473233553 Category: Tags: ,

Description

Strap in for an epic new WHITE SPACE adventure from the multiple Hugo award winning, and John W. Campbell award winning author.

Praise for Elizabeth Bear

'Like the best of speculative fiction, Bear has created a fascinating and complete universe
that blends high-tech gadgetry with Old World adventure and political collusion' Publishers Weekly

'This is certainly the best science fiction novel I've read in 2019 so far and I look forward to see how Bear develops the characters and her impressively rich universe' (POPULAR SCIENCE)

'Elizabeth Bear is just as comfortable writing steampunk and fantasy as she is hard science fiction, and Ancestral Night, first half of a duology, brims with heady concepts and sleek far-future hardware. There is a mordant wit at work' (FINANCIAL TIMES)

'Awesome, awe-inspiring space opera. Fittingly, it shifts from weighty themes to lighter humour with dexterity, grace and crackling dialogue' (Daily Mail)

'Bear has constructed a fascinating, absorbing universe populated with compelling and intelligent characters who conform to neither clichés nor stereotypes. It's sci-fi of the top order' (popmatters.com)

Additional information

Weight 360 g
Dimensions 198 × 130 × 38 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback
Pages

480
Language

English
Edition

1st paperback ed
Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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