num_pages: 212
description: John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans ' or at least, half of him was ' which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war. M. John Harrison's classic novel turns the conventions of space opera on their head, and is written with the precision and brilliance for which is famed.
language: English
title: The Centauri Device
titlecomplete: The Centauri Device
characters: John Truck
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Cyberpunk, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Novels, Fantasy
ratings_count: 1666
publisher: Bantam Books Inc