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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, and is written with the precision and brilliance for which is famed.
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The Centauri Device (Millennium SF Masterworks)
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Light. Includes one of my top 10 favorite opening lines of all time:
"It was St. Crisipn's ve on Sad al Bari IV when Captain John Truck, impelled by something he was forced to descr...
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Underlying that is a story of a man caught up in a whirlwind of conflicting ideologies and grasps for power.
I found the writing s...more...]]>
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