num_pages: 187
description: When the young son of Elizabeth Lindstrom, the autocratic president of Starflight, falls to his death, Vance Garamond, a flickerwing commander, is the obvious target for Elizabeth's grief and anger. Which, since Elizabeth is not a forgiving employer, leaves Garamond little choice but to flee. And fleeing Elizabeth's wrath means leaving the Solar System far behind, for ever, and hiding somewhere in deep space. Pursued remorselessly by Earth's space fleet, the somewhere that Garamond finds is an unimaginably vast, alien-built, spherical structure which could just change the destiny of the human race...
language: English
title: Orbitsville
titlecomplete: Orbitsville
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Collections, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 845
series: Orbitsville
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel
publisher: Granada