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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Blue Silence
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'A mysterious craft docks unexpectedly on a space station in orbit around the Earth –could this be humankind's first contact with an alien civilisation? Eerily, the ship that sits silently in the dock is similar–with a few significant differences–to the Orion, a spacecraft launched from Earth into deep space 180 years before and never heard from again. What Senator Maya Russini discovers when she leads a team to board the ship will change her life, and the course of human civilisation, forever: five hundred life forms poised to wake from stasis. While they are genetically human, unnerving violet eyes and predatory teeth and claws suggest otherwise. And, as Maya comes to discover, they have no empathy, no memories, no names–and they don't know where they came from or why. She and the newcomers become pawns in a dangerous game between rival space stations desperate to get their hands on whatever technological secrets they and their spacecraft might hold.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: for my parents.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Bantam Books , 2002 .
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      Extent: 404p.
      ISBN: 1863252517

Other Formats

  • Also braille, sound recording.

Works about this Work

Scanners Bruce Gillespie , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary : The Independent Magazine About Science Fiction , August no. 80 2010; (p. 87)

— Review of Time Past Maxine McArthur , 2002 single work novel ; Blue Silence Michelle Marquardt , 2002 single work novel ; The Sky Warden and the Sun Sean Williams , 2002 single work novel
Convergence: Writers and Their Books Sarah Endacott , Anthony Oakman , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , no. 30 2002; (p. 141-147)

— Review of Agog! Fantastic Fiction : 29 Tales of Fantasy, Imagination and Wonder 2002 anthology short story ; Blue Silence Michelle Marquardt , 2002 single work novel ; Passing Strange : A New Anthology of Speculative Fiction 2002 anthology short story ; AustrAlien Absurdities : Comic Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by Australian Writers 2001 anthology short story ; 13 : A Collection of Ghost Stories Rick Kennett , 2001 selected work short story
CoverNotes Lucy Sussex , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 May 2002; (p. 11) The West Australian , 18 May 2002; (p. 8)

— Review of Blue Silence Michelle Marquardt , 2002 single work novel
Unanswered Questions Marianne de Pierres , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 20 April 2002; (p. 7)
Convergence: Writers and Their Books Sarah Endacott , Anthony Oakman , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , no. 30 2002; (p. 141-147)

— Review of Agog! Fantastic Fiction : 29 Tales of Fantasy, Imagination and Wonder 2002 anthology short story ; Blue Silence Michelle Marquardt , 2002 single work novel ; Passing Strange : A New Anthology of Speculative Fiction 2002 anthology short story ; AustrAlien Absurdities : Comic Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by Australian Writers 2001 anthology short story ; 13 : A Collection of Ghost Stories Rick Kennett , 2001 selected work short story
Scanners Bruce Gillespie , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary : The Independent Magazine About Science Fiction , August no. 80 2010; (p. 87)

— Review of Time Past Maxine McArthur , 2002 single work novel ; Blue Silence Michelle Marquardt , 2002 single work novel ; The Sky Warden and the Sun Sean Williams , 2002 single work novel
CoverNotes Lucy Sussex , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 May 2002; (p. 11) The West Australian , 18 May 2002; (p. 8)

— Review of Blue Silence Michelle Marquardt , 2002 single work novel
Unanswered Questions Marianne de Pierres , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 20 April 2002; (p. 7)
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