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| Between the Strokes of Night | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles Sheffield
Publisher: Baen
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 422166
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0743488245
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780743488242
ASIN: 0743488245
Publication Date: April 27, 2004
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Product Description
The author of Sight of Proteus and The Selkie brings a unique brand of sci-fi to this riveting story. To long-established worlds of starfaring humans come the Immortals--beings with strange ties to ancient Earth, who seem to live forever, who can travel light years in a day--and who use their strange powers to control the existence of ordinary mortals. Reissue.
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 from here to eternity - book your seat February 11, 2000
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
It's not often that a book can start here and now and finish at the end of the universe, and keep the same characters.If you want to know how to travel faster than light (and forget all that Star Trek warping nonsense) this is the book. The way to the stars is really shown, this really could happen. Charles Sheffield demonstrates the only way the human race could ever venture beyond the solar system, and with a wealth of belivable and sympathetic characters and plot. For and sci-fi fan this is an absolute must read.
 Interesting ideas, but poor execution February 3, 2001
6 out of 21 found this review helpful
This is a fairly easy book to read, and the author has a fair following. The ideas that he puts together and his ability to tie together such diverse concepts as he does in this work is beyond question.People read science fiction for either the ideas or the story or both. For those who read it for the ideas, this will be a book that delivers. For those that are looking for a bit more... The dialogue tends to be long sermons on particular subjects not delivered through story, and the story itself tends to be fairly predictable save for the spots where new concepts are introduced. For the reader looking for more in terms of reading, this will leave you a bit dry after. Although the critical acclaim is not that easily ignored, and should not be, do not expect the same kind of fabulous experience that comes of the classics.
Superb, full of wonderful ideas and an entertaining plot November 11, 2000
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
One of my favorite science fiction books, the sort of book I think back on every once and a while that has stuck with me (I read it around 10 years ago).Really a fantastic set of ideas!
Mind expanding!!! August 24, 1998
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is based on some interesting ideas about suspended animation etc. What makes it good is that it is not a cops and robbers story in a space setting, it is a genuine sci-fi story!!!
 full of new ideas October 24, 1997
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Despite its lack of a quick narrative rythm (as other books from the same author), it's full of fresh ideas, with ramifications in subjects as time perception use and religion.
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