The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear - ISBN: 9781473233546
Paperback
Save a galaxy-sized AI from pirates, or all vanishes forever.

The Folded Sky

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  • Paperback

    496 pages

  • Release Date

    30 September 2025

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Summary

Dr. Sunyata Song must travel across the Milky Way to learn to communicate with the greatest discovery of her century: an artificial intelligence the size of a stellar system, in Hugo Award-winning author Bear’s next science fiction epic.

Information doesn’t want to be free. Information wants to vanish without a trace.

Sunya Song’s job is to stop that from happening.

She’s an archinformist: a specialist historian whose job usually involves sitting at a console at her un…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473233546
ISBN-10:1473233542
Author:Elizabeth Bear
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Gollancz
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:496
Release Date:30 September 2025
Weight:600g
Dimensions:232mm x 158mm x 40mm
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Critics Review

This is certainly the best science fiction novel I’ve read in 2019 so far and I look forward to see how Bear develops the characters and her impressively rich universe. * POPULAR SCIENCE *
Machine is a fascinating, compelling, and ultimately satisfying space opera in a vast, complex, weird, and interesting universe * Locusmag.com *
Elizabeth Bear is just as comfortable writing steampunk and fantasy as she is hard science fiction, and Ancestral Night, first half of a duology, brims with heady concepts and sleek far-future hardware. There is a mordant wit at work. * FINANCIAL TIMES *
Bear has a striking command of tension and character, and a deep interest in ethics and human behaviour * Locusmag.com *
Awesome, awe-inspiring space opera. Fittingly, it shifts from weighty themes to lighter humour with dexterity, grace and crackling dialogue * Daily Mail *
Bear has constructed a fascinating, absorbing universe populated with compelling and intelligent characters who conform to neither clichés nor stereotypes. It’s sci-fi of the top order. * popmatters.com *

About The Author

Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear won the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer in 2005 and has since published 15 novels and numerous short stories. She writes in both the SF and fantasy genres and has won critical acclaim in both. She has won the Hugo Award more than once. She lives in Massachusetts.

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