by Greg Bear (Author)
Kawashita had passed up the chance to die honourably, to go down with the mortally wounded carrier HIRYU. And when the alien spacecraft plucked him from the sea near Midway, he was sure he'd made the wrong choice: now he would certainly die, but it would be alone and without honour. But the aliens did not kill him. Instead, they gave him a world of his own, a world in which he was supreme master, able to recreate and alter history, to indulge any fantasy. Then suddenly, he was once again amongst humans - for whom World War II was a half-forgotten memory, four centuries past ...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: 2
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 08 Jun 2000
ISBN 10: 1857989783
ISBN 13: 9781857989786
Book Overview: *Greg Bear is winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards * 'One of the few SF writers capable of following where Olaf Stapledon led, beyond the limits of human ambition and geological time' LOCUS * Arthur C. Clarke has his most formidable rival yet' THE TIMES