false 77887 2 It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances... 75218 2006 Sun of Suns (Virga, #1) total:247|5:49|4:106|3:71|2:19|1:2| 247 922 401 68 4 2 false false Thu May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 10:34:42 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 11:04:35 -0700 2008 Sun of Suns bears the trappings of hard science fiction, but in reality it belongs to a much older genre: "Adventure." Like great popular works of yestercentury (such as Treasure Island or Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea), Sun of Suns takes a compelling premise and app...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 05:52:16 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 09:38:28 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Nov 01 15:08:22 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 10:08:48 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 15:08:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 04 20:01:16 -0800 2008 Sat Jul 19 08:29:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 18 10:50:59 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 10:51:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 07:04:42 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 07:05:45 -0800 2008
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One of the things I liked best was that the author didn't start off with huge amounts of expository writing to settle you into this new universe. Instead you just read about space ships using speaking tubes inside and ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 09:05:13 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 09:48:53 -0700 2009
It's been a long time since science fiction has captivated me the way that Sun of Suns has done. Usually I go to the fantasy realm to get good world building, but...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 20:30:46 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 17:51:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 true false Sat Aug 11 13:03:40 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 15:48:04 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 13:03:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 true false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 30 06:22:01 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 30 06:24:34 -0800 2007 1 1 false false Sat Aug 25 09:31:10 -0700 2007 Wed May 14 09:34:33 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 06:39:45 -0800 2009 Sun Sep 06 08:34:01 -0700 2009
Imagine this balloon is thousands of miles in diameter.

Imagine that within this balloon there are societies clustered around fusion-powered miniature suns, all floating in the atmosphere within this balloon. Societies, polities, na...more...]]> 3 0 false true Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Dec 20 17:38:20 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 18 23:19:46 -0700 2009 Sun of Suns is truly awesome in the scope of its technological milieu. The civilization of Virga, with artificially-generated gravity, is as alien to us as the idea of "Artificial Nature...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Sep 18 10:56:29 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 02 15:23:04 -0800 2008
Setting: The book is set in some place in the universe that is like a big balloon with lots of other things inside, including artificial suns. There were...more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 19:29:10 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 19:47:17 -0800 2008
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The world itself is very similar to that from Integral Trees.
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