| International Standard Book Number |
9780063292017
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063292017
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| Personal Name |
Nix, Garth, author.
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| Title Statement |
Massif : a novel / Garth Nix.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Massif : Before we journeyed to the stars, the stars journeyed to us.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Publisher |
2026.
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| Publisher |
New York : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
still image sti rdacontent.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier.
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| General Note |
Hardcover has color illustrations on endpapers.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"The Massifs came to humanity with a message: Join us among the stars. And so we did, because Earth was dying. It was a gift we couldn't pass up. It was an offer we needed to refuse...It's business as usual for Ship Leader Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the corvette Sassafras. Ride a Massif to a new system, fight the enemy, repeat. For more than two hundred years humans have been hitching rides on these sentient, starfaring mountain ranges, colonising planets and exporting an on and off again war between Earth and Mars. But the big questions are always there, behind every battle, every new colony, every new star system discovery. Why do the Massifs carry humans to the stars? Why do they help us export our wars? What's in it for the Massifs? Ship crews aren't supposed to ask these questions, they aren't supposed to think about these questions, and they definitely aren't supposed to go deep and talk to Massif avatars. But now Parnell and his tight-knit crew must try to find the answers, to save not only themselves but the future of humanity." -- Front jacket flap.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Space ships Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Space warfare Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Interstellar travel Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Space colonies Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Avatars (Virtual reality) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. lcgft.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romans. rvmgf.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Science fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Science fiction. lcgft.
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