Ghost

Book Details

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Author(s):

Piers Anthony

First Pub:

1986

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

1995

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 12

1 - Blimped

2 - Naiad

3 - Black Hole

4 - Four Dreads

5 - Theories

6 - Ghosts

7 - Revelation

8 - Committee

9 - Puzzle

10 - Parodies

11 - Neutralizations

12 - Chaos

Internal ID:

103

Series:

No series

Copyright:

Dedication:

No dedication.

First Sentence:

"How long has it been, sir?" the girl inquired.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

We still have the most difficult task of all, truly unifying, achieving peace among ourselves..."

Comments:

Comments may contain spoilers

This is the only story I've read that has the same concept of time travel that I have. Basically that if you go either direction in time but don't change your location, then you'll end up out in space somewhere because the Earth won't be in the same place.

Extract not on file

Added: 29-Dec-2002

Last Updated: 28-Feb-2023

01-Dec-1987

Tor Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Dec-1987

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$3.99

Pages*:

273

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 1 Jan 1995 - 1 Jan 1995

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1371

Publisher:

Tor Books

ISBN:

0-812-52088-2

ISBN-13:

978-0-812-52088-0

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Don Maitz - Cover Artist

GHOST
WELCOME HOME,
SPACER...

Starship Captain Shetland feels like a ghost on his own planet: Earth is an energy starved madhouse of compulsory sex and forced interbreeding, where eating meat and casting shadows are felonies - and spacers are hated as power "wasters." In fact, Shetland's life is dedicated to finding new energy for Earth - a search that takes him into deepest space.

And deepest time.

For Shetland is commander of the Meg II, a time-ship assigned to explore the void beyond the universe. What Shetland and his crew find are - ghosts. First the ghost of the ship's dead chemist. Then ghosts of dead planets, dead stars, dead nebulae. A galaxy sized black hole - the ghost of a cosmos, the ghost of all reality... and beyond it, beyond the specter of Time...

The most powerful, terrifying, malignant ghost of all...

A Tom Doherty
Associates, Inc. Book

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Tor edition: September 1986
First mass market printing: December 1987
Third printing based on the number line
Canada: $4.99

01-Dec-1987
Tor Books
Mass Market Paperback

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Author(s)

Piers Anthony
Birth: 06 Aug 1934 Oxford, England

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