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03005cam a2200433 a 4500 001 4240B7442B0311DE8760C407A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20240120010212 008 021114s2003 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2002040939 020 $a 9780765300997 (acid-free paper) 020 $a 0765300990 (acid-free paper) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d IWV $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3556.L89 $b W7 2003 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 21 100 1 $a Flynn, Michael $q (Michael F.) 245 1 $a The wreck of the River of Stars / $c Michael Flynn. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b TOR, $c 2003. 300 $a 480 p. ; $c 25 cm. 500 $a "A Tom Doherty Associates book." 520 $a This is a compelling tale of the glory that was. In the days of the great sailing ships, in the mid-twenty-first century, when magnetic sails drew cargo and passengers alike to every corner of the solar system, sailors had the highest status of all spacemen, and the crew of the luxury liner the River of Stars, the highest among all sailors. But development of the Farnsworth fusion drive doomed the sailing ships, and now the River of Stars is the last of its kind, retrofitted with engines, her mast vestigial, her sails unraised for years. An ungainly hybrid, she operates in the late years of the century as a mere tramp freighter among the outer planets, and her crew is a motley group of misfits. Stepan Gorgas is the escapist executive officer who becomes captain. Ramakrishnan Bhatterji is the chief engineer who disdains him. Eugenie Satterwaithe, once a captain herself, is third officer and, for form's sake, sailing master. When an unlikely and catastrophic engine failure strikes the River, Bhatterji is confident he can effect repairs with heroic engineering, but Satterwaithe and the other sailors among the crew plot to save her with a glorious last gasp for the old ways, mesmerized by a vision of arriving at Jupiter proudly under sail. The story of their doom has the power, the poetry, and the inevitability of a Greek tragedy. This is a great science fiction novel, Flynn's best yet. 650 0 $a Space ships $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Space flight $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 gsafd 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol052/2002040939.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol032/2002040939.html 856 41 $3 Sample text $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0707/2002040939-s.html 941 $a 8 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710042630.0 952 $l AWPD207 $d 20230209011042.0 952 $l NDPD953 $d 20201013090103.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006025802.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171226041105.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418040323.0 952 $l YUPD232 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l JRPA532 $m F Fly $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4240B7442B0311DE8760C407A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search