Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 320 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. "Karen Lord is one of today's most brilliant young talents. Her science fiction, like that of predecessors Ursula K. Le Guin and China Mieville, combines star-spanning plots, deeply felt characters, and incisive social commentary. With The Galaxy Game, Lord presents a gripping adventure that showcases her dazzling imagination as never before. On the verge of adulthood, Rafi attends the Lyceum, a school for the psionically gifted. Rafi possesses mental abilities that might benefit people. or control them. Some wish to help Rafi wield his powers responsibly; others see him as a threat to be contained. Rafi's only freedom at the Lyceum is Wallrunning: a game of speed and agility played on vast vertical surfaces riddled with variable gravity fields. Serendipity and Ntenman are also students at the Lyceum, but unlike Rafi they come from communities where such abilities are valued. Serendipity finds the Lyceum as much a prison as a school, and she yearns for a meaningful life beyond its gates. Ntenman, with his quick tongue, quicker mind, and a willingness to bend if not break the rules, has no problem fitting in. But he too has his reasons for wanting to escape. Now the three friends are about to experience a moment of violent change as seething tensions between rival star-faring civilizations come to a head. For Serendipity, it will challenge her ideas of community and self. For Ntenman, it will open new opportunities and new dangers. And for Rafi, given a chance to train with some of the best Wallrunners in the galaxy, it will lead to the discovery that there is more to Wallrunning than he ever suspected. and more to himself than he ever dreamed"--
2. "In this new novel, Rafi, a student at a school for super-human psychic abilities, travels the universe with an intergalactic sports team, encountering strange new worlds and alien cultures. Lord's bold new vision of 21st-century science fiction has appeal to both devoted genre fans and readers of literary fiction"--

Subject

1. Black author
2. Speculative fiction > Women authors
3. Psychic ability > Fiction
4. Barbadian fiction > Women authors
5. Fantasy fiction
6. Science fiction

Genre/Form

1. Fantasy fiction.
2. Science fiction.
3. Speculative fiction – Women authors.
4. Barbadian fiction – Women authors.

Call number

1. Sc D 15-1045

Note

1. "A Del Rey trade paperback original."

Author

1. Lord, Karen, 1968-

Title

1. The galaxy game / Karen Lord.

Publisher

1. New York : Del Rey, [2015]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Connect to:

1. Cover image

Local subject

1. Black author.

LCCN

1. 2014031823

ISBN

1. 9780345534071 (softcover : acid-free paper)
2. 0345534077 (softcover : acid-free paper)

Research call number

1. Sc D 15-1045