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The killing of worlds

Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: New York : Tor, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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"Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial frigate Lynx is a walking dead man. Unjustly held responsible for the death of the Child Empress, sister of the Immortal Emperor, Zai has been sent to fight an unwinnable battle. The Lynx must stop a vastly superior Rix ship from reaching the planet Legis, a suicide mission that will almost certainly end in oblivion for Captain Zai and his crew." "On the planet Legis below, a Rix
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Genre/Form: Science fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Scott Westerfeld
ISBN: 0765308509 9780765308504
OCLC Number: 52514481
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Description: 336 p. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Scott Westerfeld.
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Captain Laurent Zai embarks on a suicide mission to stop the next invasion of the Rix, machine-augmented humans dedicated to the destruction of the immortal Emperor with their own eternal cybernetic  Read more...

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