Hardcover first edition, first printing. Stated First Edition with "1" present in complete number line. Fine (unread) copy in fine jacket. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. A clean, straight copy without price-clipping. Pristine first printings of this outstanding novel without remainder marks or other defects are increasingly scarce. The first novel in Wright's critically acclaimed trilogy, followed by The Phoenix Exultant and The Golden Transcendence. Wonderful full color, wrap-around jacket illustration by Shelley Eshkar. Award History: 2003 Locus Poll Award Nominee for Best First Novel (lost to A Scattering of Jades by Irvine).