num_pages: 311
description: Nou Occitan is a place where duels are fought with equal passion over insults and artistic views alike. Giraut--swordsman, troubador, lover--is a creature of this swashbuckling world, the most isolated of humanity's Thousand Cultures.But the winds of change have come to Nou Occitan. As the invention of the "springer"--instantaneous interstellar travel, at a price--spreads throughout the human galaxy, the stability and purity of no world, no matter how isolated, is safe. Nor can Giraut's life remain untouched. To his wonder, his is about to find himself made an ambassador to a different human world, a place strange beyond his wildest imaginings.
language: English
title: A Million Open Doors
titlecomplete: A Million Open Doors (Giraut #1)
genres: Collections, Science Fiction Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 870
series: Giraut
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: SF Chronicle Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Tom Doherty Associates