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Fire with Fire
Published 2013 by Baen · 496 pages
Nebula · 2014
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★ Winner
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
Finalist
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
Finalist
The Red
Linda Nagata
Finalist · this book
Fire with Fire
Charles E. Gannon
Finalist
A Stranger in Olondria
Sofia Samatar
Finalist
The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker
Finalist
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
Finalist
Hild
Nicola Griffith
Charles E. Gannon on these ballots
4 award entries · 4 books · 0 wins · 2014–2020
Synopsis
Caine Riordan wakes from cold sleep decades after he was placed in suspension. A covert intelligence agency recruits him for humanity's first contact with alien civilizations, where diplomatic failure could trigger an interstellar war.
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