Dust

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Overview:

Title: Dust
Author: Charles Pellegrino
Year: 1999
ISBN-10: 0553507060
Publisher: Bantam Books (UK)
Price: £5.99
Pages: 543
Binding: Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Dust
Notes: First printing as per copyright page. Month of publication from Locus1. "Afterword: Reality Check" is a 28-page essay on many of the real-life scientific backgrounds to the novel. (Followed by 5-page bibliography of science papers/general science books) Cover credited to "Black Sheep".