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A spaceship that runs on spoken words is speeding towards an event horizon. Jammed into it, unable to move, are Alba, Stanley and Drew, giants now more than eighteen feet tall. Talking keeps the craft going; silence starts their bodies growing again. So they keep up the conversation, and through it they piece together a memory they share of a classroom where they were readied for the mission, and of what happened to the people they were while imprisoned, without knowing whether these recollections are real or scripts placed in their minds. Blending space adventure, realist social drama and romcom, the novel examines what follows when those in power judge that a person occupies more room than they should.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

224 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2023 by Te Herenga Waka University Press

Author's age

53 when first published

ISBN

9781776920785 (Te Herenga Waka University Press, New Zealand)

9781913512422 (Peninsula Press, United Kingdom)

9781566897310 (Coffee House Press, United States)

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