Description
Across the sweep of human history, evolution occasionally produces a rare kind of miracle: an immortal who appears to remain forever at the age of twenty-five. In this science-fiction meditation, the story follows one such “boat” through changing eras and civilizations, using a single life to illuminate how societies respond to the unsettling presence of someone who cannot be aged, broken, or fully contained by time. As the immortal moves from one world to the next, the novel explores the long arc of human ambition, the ethics of power, and the ways memory and meaning are reshaped when mortality is no longer the measure of a life. With Poul Anderson’s hallmark blend of speculative ideas and sweeping historical imagination, the book turns a simple premise into a resonant inquiry into what endures—and what doesn’t—when time itself becomes negotiable.
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paperback
Orbit
Published Jan 1, 1992
604 pages
ISBN: 9781857231045
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First Published
1989
Language
eng
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