Dimensions
132 x 196 x 16mm
John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans - or at least, half of him was - which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war. M John Harrison's classic novel turns the conventions of space opera on their head.
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