To sleep in a sea of stars / Christopher Paolini.
Record details
- ISBN: 1250762847
- ISBN: 9781250762849
- ISBN: 9781250762849 (hardback)
- ISBN: 1250762847 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781250762924 (paperback)
- ISBN: 1250762928 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 878 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First U.S. Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Tor, 2020.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Tom Doherty Associates book" |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part one: Exogenesis. Dreams -- Reliquary -- Extenuating circumstances -- Anguish -- Madness -- Shouts & echoes -- Countdown -- Out & about -- Choices -- Exeunt I -- Part two: Sublimare. Awakening -- Wallfish -- Assumptions -- Kriegsspiel -- Extremis -- Near & far -- Icons & indications -- Nowhere to hide -- Graceling -- Darmstadt -- Exposure -- Lessons -- Exeunt II -- Part three: Apocalypsis. Past sins -- A caelo usque ad centrum -- Shards -- Terror -- Sic itur ad astra -- Into the dark -- Necessity -- Sins of the present -- Exeunt III -- Part four: Fidelitatis. Dissonance -- Orsted station -- Escape! -- Necessity II -- Exeunt IV -- Part five: Malignitatem. Arrival -- Necessity III -- Integratum -- Ferro Comitante -- Astrorum Irae -- Sub specie aeternitatis -- Exeunt V -- Part Six: Quietus. Recognition -- Unity -- Decession -- Exeunt VI -- Addendum. Appendix I: Spacetime & FTL -- Appendix II: Ship-based combat in space -- Appendix III: Terminology -- Appendix IV: Timeline -- Afterword & acknowledgments. |
Summary, etc.: | During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira Navárez finds an alien relic. At first delighted, her elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact is not at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. Now Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation-- and Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope.-- adapted from jacket. |
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Subject: | Human-alien encounters > Fiction. Space colonies > Fiction. Interplanetary voyages > Fiction. Space warfare > Fiction. |
Genre: | Science fiction. |
Available copies
- 45 of 52 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 5 of 5 copies available at Bridgeport Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 52 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | SF PAOLINI (Text) | 34000147918411 | Adult Science Fiction | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | SF PAOLINI (Text) | 34000147918429 | Adult Science Fiction | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | YA PAOLINI (Text) | 34000147965917 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Newfield Branch - Bridgeport | SF PAOLINI (Text) | 34000147918437 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
North Branch - Bridgeport | SF PAOLINI (Text) | 34000147918445 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Christopher Paolini was born in Southern California on November 17, 1983, but grew up primarily in Paradise Valley, Montana. He was home schooled and at the age of 15, graduated from high school through an accredited correspondence course at American School in Chicago, Illinois. He decided to write a book and after three years of writing and editing, Eragon was self-published in 2001. The Paolini family spent the following year promoting the book themselves by giving presentations to the local library and high school and then eventually branching out to libraries, bookstores, and schools across the United States. After his step-son read a copy of the book, author Carl Hiaasen brought Eragon to the attention of publisher Alfred A. Knopf, who acquired the rights to publish Eragon and the rest of the Inheritance Cycle in 2003. The other books in the cycle include Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance. Eragon was made into a movie in December 2006. (Bowker Author Biography)