Book description
A Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying 82
young people: fighters, strategists, scientists; the Children. They work
with sophisticated non-human technologies that need new thinking to
comprehend them. They are cut off forever from the people they left
behind. Denied information, they live within a complex system that is
both obedient and beyond their control. They are frightened. And they
are making war against entities whose technologies are so advanced, so
vast, as to dwarf them. Against something whose psychology is
ultimately, unknowably alien. Gregory Dale Bear was born in San
Francisco in 1951 and is regarded as one of the world's leading hard SF
authors. He sold his first short story, at the age of fifteen, to Robert
Lowndes's Famous Science Fiction, and began to write full time in 1975,
since which time he has produced a body of work of huge significance and
influence to the science fiction canon. He is the winner of 5 Nebulas
and 2 Hugos, amongst many other awards, and is regarded as one of the
natural successors to Olaf Stapledon and Arthur C. Clarke. A full-time
writer, he lives in Washington State with his family. He is married to
Astrid Anderson Bear, daughter of award-winning SF writer, the late Poul
Anderson.
