Obviously, she was sent to teach us wisdom." My father would laugh, but I would pout, knowing I had lost another round, and that I must try harder next time. With a dark frown and her strong arms crossed over her chest she would say, "We have been so very fortunate to have such a wild and reckless daughter as Jubilee. When my antics grew too much she would turn to my father. More than once I schemed to make her look foolish, just to be sure she would not get into Heaven when her time came. This was always a great concern for me, for my mother was the wisest person I knew and I feared for her. For if there was no Heaven, I reasoned, then the dead would always be reborn in this world and not the next, no matter how wise they became in life. But the pale arch that appears at the zenith on clear nights and that we call the Bow of Heaven never would appear on my blanket-and for that I was glad. When I was ten I had a blanket that was smooth and dark, with no light of its own until I moved and then its folds would glitter with thousands of tiny stars in all the colors of the stars in the night sky. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. One way or another, Jubilee's final confrontation will change everything. unless the dark stranger, relentless in his pursuit, achieves his goal of destroying it. And with these she will forever alter her world's future. Jubilee's flight will lead her to discoveries she could never have imagined, from the secret history of her civilization and her people's origins to the true nature of the silver, to the awesome forgotten memories within her. and may somehow become the catalyst for the annihilation of everything she knows if she does not find him first. For she has learned an impossible secret: Jolly may still be alive. But when a forbidding stranger with the incredible power to control the silver comes seeking Jolly-and claiming that Jolly knows him-Jubilee first distrusts the man, then fears him and flees. Young Jubilee is devastated when her brother Jolly is caught and taken by the silver.
where the sky is bisected by an arch of light and the mysterious "silver" rises from the ground each night to completely transform the landscape-and erase from existence anything it touches.
Acclaimed hard-SF author Linda Nagata introduces a new world: a human colony whose people have forgotten their past, on a tremendous structure that forms a great ring around the sun.
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