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Revision as of 14:45, 29 January 2007
Author | Robert Silverberg |
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Cover artist | Jim Burns |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction novel |
Publisher | Grafton |
Publication date | 1991 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
Pages | 363 pp |
ISBN | ISBN 0-246-13718-5 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
The Face of the Waters is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg, first published in 1991.
Plot introduction
The Face of the Waters takes place in the far future, on a penal planet, inhabited by convicts and their progeny. The planet is Hydros, an oceanic planet whose inhabitants live on artificial floating islands.
After a human offense against the natives of Hydros, the human population of the island of Sorve are ordered to leave. Forbidden all other islands, in a flotilla of ships they seek the semi-mythical island of the Face of the Waters.