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'A mysterious craft docks unexpectedly on a space station in orbit around the Earth –could this be humankind's first contact with an alien civilisation? Eerily, the ship that sits silently in the dock is similar–with a few significant differences–to the Orion, a spacecraft launched from Earth into deep space 180 years before and never heard from again. What Senator Maya Russini discovers when she leads a team to board the ship will change her life, and the course of human civilisation, forever: five hundred life forms poised to wake from stasis. While they are genetically human, unnerving violet eyes and predatory teeth and claws suggest otherwise. And, as Maya comes to discover, they have no empathy, no memories, no names–and they don't know where they came from or why. She and the newcomers become pawns in a dangerous game between rival space stations desperate to get their hands on whatever technological secrets they and their spacecraft might hold.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Dedication: for my parents.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also braille, sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Scanners
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary : The Independent Magazine About Science Fiction , August no. 80A 2010; (p. 87)
— Review of Time Past 2002 single work novel ; Blue Silence 2002 single work novel ; The Sky Warden and the Sun 2002 single work novel -
Convergence: Writers and Their Books
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , no. 30 2002; (p. 141-147)
— Review of Agog! Fantastic Fiction : 29 Tales of Fantasy, Imagination and Wonder 2002 anthology short story ; Blue Silence 2002 single work novel ; Passing Strange : A New Anthology of Speculative Fiction 2002 anthology short story ; AustrAlien Absurdities : Comic Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by Australian Writers 2001 anthology short story ; 13 : A Collection of Ghost Stories 2001 selected work short story -
CoverNotes
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 May 2002; (p. 11) The West Australian , 18 May 2002; (p. 8)
— Review of Blue Silence 2002 single work novel -
Unanswered Questions
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 20 April 2002; (p. 7)
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Convergence: Writers and Their Books
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , no. 30 2002; (p. 141-147)
— Review of Agog! Fantastic Fiction : 29 Tales of Fantasy, Imagination and Wonder 2002 anthology short story ; Blue Silence 2002 single work novel ; Passing Strange : A New Anthology of Speculative Fiction 2002 anthology short story ; AustrAlien Absurdities : Comic Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by Australian Writers 2001 anthology short story ; 13 : A Collection of Ghost Stories 2001 selected work short story -
Scanners
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary : The Independent Magazine About Science Fiction , August no. 80A 2010; (p. 87)
— Review of Time Past 2002 single work novel ; Blue Silence 2002 single work novel ; The Sky Warden and the Sun 2002 single work novel -
CoverNotes
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 May 2002; (p. 11) The West Australian , 18 May 2002; (p. 8)
— Review of Blue Silence 2002 single work novel -
Unanswered Questions
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 20 April 2002; (p. 7)
Awards
- 2003 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — Best Novel
- 2002 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Science Fiction Division — Best Novel
- 2000 winner The George Turner Prize