The Companions (Gollancz)
Publisher: Gollancz; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: February 19, 2004
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780575075658
Subjects: Science Fiction
First sentence: The moss world, so said one XT-ploitation writer who had reviewed first-contact images of it, was a Victorian parlor of a planet, everywhere padded and bolstered, its cliffs hung with garlands, its crevasses softened with cushions, every cranny silk-woven, every surface napped into velvet.