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Ghost

64.3% complete
1986
1995
1 time
See 12
1 - Blimped
2 - Naiad
3 - Black Hole
4 - Four Dreads
5 - Theories
6 - Ghosts
7 - Revelation
8 - Committee
9 - Puzzle
10 - Parodies
11 - Neutralizations
12 - Chaos
Book Cover
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103
No series
Copyright © 1986 by Piers Anthony
No dedication.
"How long has it been, sir?" the girl inquired.
May contain spoilers
We still have the most difficult task of all, truly unifying, achieving peace among ourselves..."
Comments may contain spoilers
This is the only story I've read that has the same concept of time travel that I have.  Basically that if you go either direction in time but don't change your location, then you'll end up out in space somewhere because the Earth won't be in the same place.
Synopsis not on file
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Added: 29-Dec-2002
Last Updated: 28-Feb-2023

Publications

 01-Dec-1987
Tor Books
Mass Market Paperback
In my libraryI read this editionOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Dec-1987
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$3.99
Pages*:
273
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   1 Jan 1995 - 1 Jan 1995
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
1371
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-812-52088-2
ISBN-13:
978-0-812-52088-0
Printing:
3
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Don Maitz  - Cover Artist
GHOST
WELCOME HOME,
SPACER...


Starship Captain Shetland feels like a ghost on his own planet: Earth is an energy starved madhouse of compulsory sex and forced interbreeding, where eating meat and casting shadows are felonies - and spacers are hated as power "wasters."  In fact, Shetland's life is dedicated to finding new energy for Earth - a search that takes him into deepest space.

And deepest time.

For Shetland is commander of the Meg II, a time-ship assigned to explore the void beyond the universe.  What Shetland and his crew find are - ghosts.  First the ghost of the ship's dead chemist.  Then ghosts of dead planets, dead stars, dead nebulae.  A galaxy sized black hole - the ghost of a cosmos, the ghost of all reality... and beyond it, beyond the specter of Time...

The most powerful, terrifying, malignant ghost of all...

A Tom Doherty
Associates, Inc. Book
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Notes and Comments:
First Tor edition: September 1986
First mass market printing: December 1987
Third printing based on the number line
Canada: $4.99

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Author(s)

Piers Anthony  
Birth: 06 Aug 1934 Oxford, England

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  • I try to maintain page numbers for audiobooks even though obviously there aren't any. I do this to keep track of pages read and I try to use the Kindle version page numbers for this.
  • Synopses marked with an asterisk (*) were generated by an AI. There aren't a lot since this is an iffy way to do it - AI seems to make stuff up.
  • When specific publication dates are unknown (ie prefixed with a "Cir"), I try to get the publication date that is closest to the specific printing that I can.
  • When listing chapters, I only list chapters relevant to the story. I will usually leave off Author Notes, Indices, Acknowledgements, etc unless they are relevant to the story or the book is non-fiction.
  • Page numbers on this site are for the end of the main story. I normally do not include appendices, extra material, and other miscellaneous stuff at the end of the book in the page count.






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