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The memory of whiteness

Kim Stanley Robinson · 1985 · Novel

Setting: far future (3229)

Synopsis

In 3229 A.D., human civilization is scattered among the planets, moons, and asteroids of the solar system. Billions of lives depend on the technology derived from the breakthroughs of the greatest physicist of the age, Arthur Holywelkin. But in the last years of his life, Holywelkin devoted himself to building a strange, beautiful, and complex musical instrument that he called The Orchestra. Johannes Wright has earned the honor of becoming the Ninth Master of Holywelkin's Orchestra.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Science fictionFiction, science fiction, generalFICTION / Science Fiction / GeneralFiction, romance, science fiction

isfdb_id: 1539

openlibrary_id: OL81664W

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