Heart of the Comet

David Brin and Gregory Benford

 

An Orbit Book

First published by Bantam Books in 1986

This edition published by Orbit in 1997

 

Copyright © 1986 by David Brin and Abbenford Associates

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission

to reprint lines from the poem “Epilogue”

by Edgar Lee Masters from the Spoon River Anthology.

Copyright 1915, 1916, 1942, 1944 by Edgar Lee Masters.

Used by permission of the Macmillan Publishing Company.

 

All Rights Reserved.

A CIP catalogue record for this book

is available from the British Library.

 

ISBN 1 85723 436 7

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Clays Ltd, St Ives. plc

Orbit

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