Celestial Matters

Richard Garfinkle

Science Fiction Alternate History

Compton Crook Award winner 1997.

A thousand years after Alexander the Great, the Greek Empire has expanded over the world with the help of advanced technology. Its plans for Total Domination of the entire planet will be complete once the war with the empire of the middle kingdom has been won.

The scientist Aias, commander of the celestial ship Chandra's Tear, prepares to embark on a secret mission to the sun, to steal a piece of the purest elemental fire. This ultimate piece of celestial matter will form the basis for a weapon capable of decisively ending the war with the Taoists of the Far East.

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1996
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Richard Garfinkle

Richard Garfinkle is an American writer of science fiction. He is best known as the author of Celestial Matters, a novel published by Tor Books, which was nominated for the Hugo Award and Nebula Award and won the Compton Crook Award in 1997. Richard Garfinkle is a 1992 graduate of the Clarion West Writers' Workshop and was nominated twice for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Richard Garfinkle has taught at numerous writers' workshops at the annual Chicago-area science fiction convention Windycon and at the Chicago 2000 World Science Fiction Convention.