Virga: Cities of the Air: Sun of Suns and Queen of Candesce

by Karl Schroeder

Book Overview

It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" --enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for centripetal gravity.

This complex and fascinating world is the setting for the novels of Virga, Karl Schroeder's interstellar far-future...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765326701
• ISBN13: 9780765326706
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"