num_pages: 480
description: Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars -- is running from her bullying brother, who has threatened to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft from the sparsely populated and austere comet-mining habitat she has lived in her whole life, she spots a distant, approaching object, and stakes a legal claim to it. It is not the valuable comet she hoped for but something even more wonderful, an abandoned Cycler starship. Her discovery unleashes a fury of action, greed, and interstellar intrigue as many factions attempt to take advantage of the last great opportunity to revitalize - and perhaps control - the Compact. This is the story of Rue's quest to visit and claim this ship and its treasures, set against a background of warring empires, strange alien artifacts, and fantastic science. It is a story of hope and danger, of a strange and compelling religion, Permanence, unique to this star-faring age, and of the re-birth of life and belief in a place at the edge of forever.
language: English
title: Permanence
titlecomplete: Permanence
genres: Fantasy, Space, Science Fiction Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Canada, Fiction, Adventure, Science Fiction, Space Opera
ratings_count: 692
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Sunburst Award
category: Canadian Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Prix Aurora Award
category: Best Long-Form Work in English
publisher: Tor Books