Cluster · Book 5
Viscous Circle
- Published
- 1 January 1982
- Pages
- 266
- ISBN-13
- 9780380798971
- Type
- novel
About this book
Viscous Circle closes the series in 1982 at 266 pages, its shortest entry, bringing the Kirlian-transfer saga's exploration of identity and interstellar warfare to a close.
Its place in Cluster
Viscous Circle is book 5 in the Cluster series. It follows Thousandstar. See the full Cluster reading order.
In the Cluster universe, a person's life force — their Kirlian aura — can be transferred across interstellar distances into another body, human or alien, letting a single consciousness inhabit wildly different physical forms and even species over the course of one adventure. Flint of Outworld, a young man from a backward human colony, is recruited by a dying interstellar civilization to travel this way through a hundred-world galactic cluster, occupying alien bodies to broker alliances and fight covert wars…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780380798971