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Authors: Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
Year: 2008
Type: NOVEL
Series: Time Odyssey
Series Number: 3
Language: English
Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firstborn_(novel)
ISFDB Record Number: 707889
Synopsis: Failing to eliminate life on Earth after their first attack, the Firstborn send a Q-bomb weapon to finish the job. Two cryogenically frozen females and a group of scientists studying the Eye, an artifact of the Firstborn, may be the only hope of finding a way to counter the onslaught. (WorldCat)
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Variant Titles:
- Elsőszülöttek [Hungarian] (2009) - Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
- Wächter [German] (2009) - Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
- L'occhio dell'universo [Italian] (2009) - Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
Publications:
- Firstborn, (Dec 2007, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 978-0-345-50448-7, $7.99, ebook) - [VERIFIED]
- Firstborn, (Jan 2008, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 0-345-49157-2, $25.95, 364pp, hc) Cover: David Stevenson - [VERIFIED]
- Firstborn, (Jan 2008, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine / SFBC, #1249371, $14.99, 364pp, hc) Cover: David Stevenson
- Firstborn, (Jun 2008, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter, publ. Gollancz, 978-0-575-08339-4, £11.99, 289pp, tp)
- Firstborn, (Jun 2008, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter, publ. Gollancz, 978-0-575-08340-0, £16.99, 289pp, hc) Cover: David Stevenson
- Firstborn, (Nov 2008, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 978-0-345-49158-9, $7.99, 410pp, pb) - [VERIFIED]
- Wächter, (Jan 2009, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter, publ. Heyne, 3-453-52496-9, €8.95, 450pp, pb) Cover: David Stevenson - [VERIFIED]
- Firstborn, (Feb 2009, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter, publ. Gollancz, 978-0-575-08341-7, £6.99, 394pp, pb) Cover: David Stevenson
- L'occhio dell'universo, (Jul 2009, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter, publ. Editrice Nord (Narrativa Nord #368), 978-88-429-1615-4, € 20.00, 390pp, hc)
Reviews:
- Review by Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. (2008) in SFRA Review #285
- Review by Gary K. Wolfe (2008) in Locus, #564 January 2008
- Review by Tom Easton (2008) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2008
- Review by David Langford (2008) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, November 2008