description: The arrival of an odd assortment of suspicious tourists on the planet Damiem parallels the final moves in a twenty-year-old interplanetary war that ends in the destruction of a star
language: English
title: Brightness Falls from Air
titlecomplete: Brightness Falls from Air
characters: Captain Saul Dayan (Scooter), Lady Marquise Pardalianches (Pardie or Lady P.), Feanya, Lady Marquise Paralomena (’Lomena or Loma, Nyil, Bridey McBannion (Bee), Doctor Aristrides Ochter, Balthasar Baramji ap Bye (Baram or Bram), Mordecai Yule (Mordy), Wyrra, Corrisón Estreèl-Korso (Cory), Black Golya, Zhymel, Doctor Nathaniel Hiner, Snake Smith, Linnix, Prince-Prince Pao, Ser Xe Vovoka, Kipruget Korso-Estreèl (Kip), Yrion Red, Hannibal Ek (Hanny or Hanno), Doctor Siri Lipsius, Juiyn, Stareem Fada (Star), Quiyst, Zannez
genres: Aliens, Book Club, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Mystery, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Space, Space Opera
ratings_count: 1006
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Translated Long Form
publisher: St. Martin's Press