{"title": "Great sky river", "covers": [6944157, 287321, 8542846, 3202731, 976974, 12167256, 1009432], "key": "/works/OL108295W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL32471A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Artificial intelligence", "Fiction", "Black holes (Astronomy)", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "Science fiction"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "From back cover Warner paperback August 2004:\r\n\r\nNearly 100,000 years after first contact with the machines that dominate the universe, only a few hundred humans survive.  Trapped on Snowglade, a barren world near the center of the galaxy, Killeen and his child Toby of the Bishop Tribe are primitive scavengers, homeless and hunted by the ruling \"mechs.\"  Then suddenly, a strange cosmic entity -- neither organic, nor cybernetic nor living matter -- reaches out from a black hole to speak with Killeen.  But can the fallen descendant of starfarers understand this alien being in time -- and seize his only chance to save his family and mankind from final annihilation?"}, "latest_revision": 14, "revision": 14, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-17T22:32:26.738690"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-14T09:39:34.993988"}}