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304 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2013
The galactics, as always, had underestimated human intelligence, ingenuity and determination.
—p.182
It was a hell of a universe: a galaxy divided uneasily between alien species that once had sworn war to the death now trying to find a way to coexist; technology beyond humanity's dreams, some the product of human ingenuity, some modified from alien sources; and all of it used to distract, to divert, to suppress, to maintain.In Transcendental, what remains is an unstable, multivalent truce, perhaps the most original thing about the book—I cannot think of a previous work of SF that depicts its interactions among species in this precise way.
—p.71