Details
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Title
Embedded
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Author
Abnett, Dan
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Binding
Mass Market Paperbound
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Edition
First Thus
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Condition
Used - Good
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Pages
432
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Watkins Media Limited, Nottingham, England
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Date
2011-03-29
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Features
Price on Product - Canadian
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Bookseller's Inventory #
3576000-6
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ISBN
9780857660916 / 0857660918
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Weight
0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
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Dimensions
6.88 x 4.23 x 1.18 in (17.48 x 10.74 x 3.00 cm)
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Dewey Decimal Code
FIC
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Dan made his name in the tie-in SF and Fantasy fiction field, selling more than 1.2 million copies in English language of his Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 novels for Games Workshop's Black Library imprint. They've also been translated into ten other languages. He's also recently made the UK fiction charts with original Torchwood and Doctor Who novels. His comicbook scripts, for major publishers such as Marvel, DC Comics and the UK's 2000AD, have attracted critical plaudits and strong sales on both sides of the Atlantic.
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"Abnett's writing is fluid, engaging, and smart, connecting pieces together seamlessly..." -www.sfsignal.com
"At it's heart Embedded is a gritty military science fiction story, it's also one of the best books you will read this year, I loved every second of it." - SF Book Reviews
"Embedded has character, personality, action, combat, mysteries and a love interest. It fulfills my high expectations and makes me hungry for more." -www.cybermage.se
"Embedded is gripping and near-impossible to put down, and you will find yourself compelled to keep reading." -www.civilian-reader.blogspot.com
"This is a very good book with a very dark underbelly." - Gill Polack
"I devoured [the book] in a couple of days and my only complaint was that there wasn’t more of it!" -www.myfavouritebooks.blogspot.com
Media reviews
"Abnett takes an ingenious idea and produces a nail-biting tale that has serious things to say about war and the news media." - Eric Brown, The Guardian
"Dan Abnett makes war so real you want to duck." - SciFi.com
"The cinematic scope and dizzying vision we're shown puts most recent SF movie epics into deep shade." - SF Site
"Abnett delivers the kind of pulsating military sci-fi that we all know he can" - Graeme's Fantasy Book Review
About the author
Dan Abnett is a seven-times New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning comic book writer. He has written over fifty novels, including the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts series, the Eisenhorn Cycle, volumes of the million-selling Horus Heresy series, The Silent Stars Go By (Doctor Who), Rocket Raccoon and Groot: Steal the Galaxy, Triumff, and Embedded. In comics, his 2008 run on The Guardians of the Galaxy for Marvel formed the inspiration for the blockbuster movies. He is also noted for significant work on DC's Legion of Superheroes and Aquaman. A regular contributor to the UK's long-running 2000AD, he is the creator of series including Brink, Grey Area, Lawless, Kingdom and the classic Sinister Dexter. He has also written extensively for the games industry, including Shadow of Mordor and Alien: Isolation. Dan lives and works in the UK.
