Coming of Age in the Milky Way
#1858 of 3,809 books · #196 in Science & Technology
Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1989).
On the planet Tigris, prepubescent children have strange telekinetic powers.
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- ISBN-13
- 9780688058890
- Genre
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1989)
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