Hegira /
The planet Hegira is the universe's melting pot. Hundreds of tribes in dozens of cities intermingle in the vast uncharted territory. The only thing holding the people together are the massive Obelisks, the chronicles of the all the truths and falsehoods each tribe has brought to Hegira. Young B...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Dell,
1979.
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| Series: | Dell SF
A Dell Book Dell |
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| Summary: | The planet Hegira is the universe's melting pot. Hundreds of tribes in dozens of cities intermingle in the vast uncharted territory. The only thing holding the people together are the massive Obelisks, the chronicles of the all the truths and falsehoods each tribe has brought to Hegira. Young Bar-Woten is in search of knowledge and he knows the key to the truth about his homeland is contained in the writings of the Obelisks. With his fellow companions, Bar-Woten must travel through Hegira's exotic cities to discover the lies within the words of thousands. "Almost three-quarters of a million miles around, Hegira had, against all laws of physics, Earth-normal gravity; it's different races had a common history, graven on giant Obelisks that rose out of sight ot the sky, beyond men's powers to reach and read. As knowledge advanced, Hegira grew more impossible to explain or understand. The strange trio who set off in search of the legendary Land Where Night Is a River--a disguised soldier fleeing the wrath of those his army had oppresses, a bewildered religious fanatic, and a slave who held a secret he dared not think of--knew little of their planet's oddities and cared less...until Hegira's changeless mysteries began to alter, threatening the existence of all life on its surface."--Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | Cover art by James Fox. Interior illustrations by Stephen Fabian. First printing June 1979. "A Dell book"--Title page. "Dell SF"--Front cover and spine. |
| Physical Description: | 240 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0440134730 9780440134732 |