Knight Moves
Knight Moves won the Philip K Dick Award nomination. Eight hundred years ago Doran Falkner gave humanity the stars, and he now lives with his regrets on a depopulated Earth among tumbledown ruins and ancient dreams brought to life by modern technology. But word now comes that alien life has been discovered on a distant world, life so strange and impossible that the revelation of its secrets could change everything. A disillusioned knight on the chessboard of the gods, Doran must confront his own lost promise, his lost love, and his lost humanity, to make the move that will revive the fortunes both of humans and aliens.
- Publisher
- Walter Jon Williams
- ISBN-13
- 9780983740889
- Topics
- Immortality and regretFirst contact with alien lifePost-human Earth and lost civilization
Awards
- Philip K. Dick AwardShortlisted(1986)
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