The Face of the Waters
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novel
Year: 1991
ID: 294
Publication history:
- 1984: La Face des Eaux, Laffont Hard cover book, ISBN 2221070232, 360 pp., in French as La face des eaux
- 1991: The Face of the Waters, Grafton Hard cover book, 348 pp.
- 1991: The Face of the Waters, Bantam Hard cover book, 353 pp.
- 1991: The Face of the Waters (Limited Edition), Bantam Hard cover book, 353 pp.
- 1991: The Face of the Waters, Grafton Trade paperback, ISBN 0261673955, 348 pp.
- 1992: The Face of the Waters, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-29907-7, 436 pp.
- 1992: The Face of the Waters, Book of the Month Club Mass market paperback, 353 pp.
- 1992: The Face of the Waters, Grafton Mass market paperback, 428 pp.
- 1993: Face das Aguas, Mass market paperback, ISBN 972-1-03672-2, in Portuguese
- 1994: La Faz de las Aguas, Grijalbo Mondadori Mass market paperback, ISBN 8425325358, in Spanish
- 1995: Ãœber den Wassern, Heyne Mass market paperback, ISBN 3453062094, 525 pp., in German
- 1997: La Face des eaux, LGF Mass market paperback, ISBN 2253071919, 508 pp., in French as La face des eaux
- 2000: The Face of the Waters, E-reads Online
- 2001: The Face of the Waters, Peanut Press Online
Blurb:
(from Bantam 1992)
On the watery world of Hydros, scattered outposts of humans live on artificial islands in uneasy peace with the native race of amphibians. But the humans on one island anger their hosts and are sent into exile, castaways set adrift on the planet's vast and violent sea...
Around the humans' fragile boat swarms a multitude of exotic sea life — all merciless and deadly. But behind the many dangerous life-forms lies a planet-wide secret — and a mysterious landmass shrouded in myth and mystery.
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Comments:
A good, if not exactly great, book set on a water world with strange floating islands inhabited by a very tentative human population at the sufferance of mysterious natives. I'll need to reread it (I read it when it came out–well before starting this web site) to provide better commentary than that.
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