Title: Scardown
Title Record # 168635
Author: Elizabeth Bear
Date: 2005-06-28
Type: NOVEL
Series: Jenny Casey
Series Number: 2
Language: English
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Author: Elizabeth Bear
Date: 2005-06-28
Type: NOVEL
Series: Jenny Casey
Series Number: 2
Language: English
Synopsis: As Canada races with China for primacy in sending colonists out from an ecologically devastated Earth, a badly wounded female Canadian soldier who has been treated with nanobots of alien design which allow her to interface with the controls of a faster than light ship also based on alien design struggles with the task, as various aspects of her past and present also reach the crisis point.
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Current Tags: Hartford, CT (1), science fiction (1), military (1), first contact (1), asteroid strike (1), female protagonist (1), strong female characters (1), first person point of view (1), multiple points of view (1), alien technology (1), Canada (1), family (1), faster than light travel (1), generation ships (1), China (1), nanobots (1), artificial personalities (1), enhanced biology (1), post atomic war (1), ecological collapse (1), near future (1) Add Tags
Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scardown | 2005-06-28 | Elizabeth Bear | Bantam | $7.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | Paul Youll | |||
| Scardown | 2005-07-00 | Elizabeth Bear | Bantam Spectra | 0-553-58751-X | $6.99?$: US dollar |
[iii]+ 368+ [17] |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Paul Youll |  |
| Scardown | 2015-04-30 | Elizabeth Bear | Gollancz | 978-1-4732-1177-3 | £3.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
| Scardown | 2020-05-14 | Elizabeth Bear | Gateway / Orion | 978-1-4732-2455-1 | £9.99?£: UK pound |
320 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
| Scardown | 2022-11-01 | Elizabeth Bear | Tantor Audio | $18.26?$: US dollar |
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by Romie Stott (2005) in Reflection's Edge, August 2005
- Review by Russell Letson (2005) in Locus, #537 October 2005
- Review by Claire Brialey (2006) in Strange Horizons, 19 June 2006