June 2019 Update!
Now available in Kindle and Trade Paperback editions
from Phoenix Pick – details below
Cover art by Ron Miller
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First edition June 1985, Berkley
mass market paperback
ISBN: 0-425-07763-2 | $2.95 -
December 1987, Ace
mass market paperback
ISBN: 0-441-18074-4 | $3.50 -
March 1988, Legend – U.K.
mass market paperback
ISBN: 0-09-953360-X | L3.50 -
1 November 2003, iBooks/S&S – US
trade paperback
ISBN: 0-743-47536-4 | $11.95 - June 2019, Phoenix Pick (an Arc Manor imprint) – US
trade paperback
ISBN: 978-1-61242-454-5
Dedication – For Janie, for believing, and Matt, for being.
Reviews and Notices
1985 Nebula Award Preliminary Ballot
LOCUS Recommended Reading List
1985 Philip K. Dick Award Nominee (Best Original Paperback Novel)
#2 in the 1985 LOCUS Poll for Best First Novel
“Here comes the kind of novel we need in the mid-Eighties: a novel which shows that humankind is, with all its faults, redeemable. Emprise has true excitement because it deals with that most dangerous of all time-zones: the present.”
—Brian Aldiss, author of The Trillion-Year Spree
“A heady mix of political intrigue and hard science as Earth reacts to its first interstellar contact. An impressive debut.”
—Julian May, author of The Many-Colored Land
“A fine first novel, the work of an alert intellect dealing with major issues…the first of a trilogy which should prove to be as fascinating as it is ambitious.”
—Faren Miller, LOCUS
“A remarkably mature novel; reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke at his best.”
—Peter Heck, NEWSDAY
“One of those rare books where the ideas, the plotting, the writing, and the characters are all first-rate.”
—Gene DeWeese, SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW
