Series
Four Hundred Billion Stars
Paul J. McAuley · 3 novels · 1988–1991
Four Hundred Billion Stars, Paul J. McAuley's Philip K. Dick Award-winning debut, is a far-future space opera in which a scientist studying a colony world's biosphere is pulled into an interstellar war; its direct sequel, Eternal Light, carries the story onto a stranger and larger stage. Of the Fall, McAuley's other novel from the same years, is a separate planetary-colony story rather than a continuation of the same plot.
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- 1980s2
- 1990s1
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Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
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- Eternal Lightdarkest · calmest
- Four Hundred Billion Starsbrightest · most intense