Ascending

James Alan Gardner

earliest edition we have, 2001 Avon, 2001 hardcover 361 pages

Oar is the last of her kind -- a resident of the so-called "planet of no return," once the Admiralty's dumping ground for undesirables and those who had become expendable. Oar's transparent body is indestructible. Yet the mind it houses grows weary and will soon surrender to the catatonic torpor that has already claimed the others of her genetically altered human race. But Oar cannot sleep, not yet. There are powerfu...

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Editions we hold

Ascending edition · 2014 · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781497612266
Ascending edition · 2014 · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781497612242
Ascending edition · 2005 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061159084
Ascending ebook · 2005 · HarperCollins · 9780060848309
Ascending hardcover · 2001 · Avon · 361 pages · 9780739420928
Ascending edition · 2001 · Eos · 384 pages · 9780380813292

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