A Million Open Doors

Published just last year in hardcover, John Barnes's Orbital Resonance catapulted its author into the first rank of science fiction writers, earning a place on the final ballot for the Nebula Award and garnering praise from sources as diverse as Dean Ing ("A strong contender!") and Jane Yolen ("John Barnes is a writer we'd all do well to keep our eyes on"). Now Barnes returns with an even stronger followup, a classic of brilliant SF speculation and profoundly human concern, set against a sprawling interstellar future of complexity, danger, and hope.