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The Centauri Device

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The Centauri Device

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Author: M. John Harrison
Publisher: Gollancz, 2000
Panther Books, Ltd., 1975
Doubleday, 1974
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Book Type: Novel
Genre: Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags: Artificial Intelligence
Space Opera
Hard SF
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John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans - or at least, half of him was - which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war.

M. John Harrison's classic novel turns the conventions of space opera on their head, and is written with the precision and brilliance for which is famed.


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