Cosmonaut Keep (Engines of Light #1)
Ken MacLeod
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
3.60
· 27 ratings · 401 pages · Published: 26 Mar 2000
Gregor Cairns is an exobiology student and descendant of one of Terra Nova's first families. Hopelessly infatuated with a lovely young trader's daughter, he is unaware that his research partner, Elizabeth, has fallen in love with him. Together, Gregor and Elizabeth confront the great work his family began three centuries earlier-to rediscover the secret of interstellar travel.
Ranging from a gritty near-future Earth to a distant alien world, Cosmonaut Keep is contemporary science fiction at its highest level, a visionary epic filled with daring individuals seeking a place for themselves in a vast, complex, and enigmatic universe.
Cosmonaut Keep is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel.
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The 'Engines of Light' series
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sci-fi · fiction · adult · aliens · book · invasion · violent-conflict · space · first-contact · space-opera · action-adventure · colonization · galactic-empire
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