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Orbital Resonance 
Cover of first edition (hardcover)Author(s) John Barnes Country United States Language English Series Century Next Door Genre(s) Science fiction novel Publisher Tor Books Publication date 1991 Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback) Pages 214 pp ISBN 0-312-85206-1 OCLC Number 23975965 LC Classification PS3552.A677 O73 1991 Followed by Kaleidoscope Century For the celestial mechanics article, see Orbital resonance.Orbital Resonance is a science fiction novel by John Barnes. It is the first of four books comprising the Century Next Door series, followed by Kaleidoscope Century, Candle, The Sky So Big and Black.
Orbital Resonance was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1991.
Critical reaction
"This may be Barnes’s best book. (Or that may be A Million Open Doors.) It’s a book almost everyone who likes SF will enjoy, and if it gives you a lot to think about as well, then that’s all to the good." -- Jo Walton [1]
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Books by John Barnes The Century Next Door series Orbital Resonance (1991) • Kaleidoscope Century (1995) • Candle (2000) • The Sky So Big and Black (2002)The Thousand Cultures series A Million Open Doors (1993) • Earth Made of Glass (1999) • The Merchants of Souls (2002) • The Armies of Memory (2006)The Time Raider series Wartide (1992) • Battle Cry (1992) • Union Fires (1992) •The Timeline Wars series Patton's Spaceship (1997) • Washington's Dirigible (1997) • Caesar's Bicycle (1997) • Timeline Wars (1997) (omnibus)The Jak Jinnaka series Duke of Uranium (2002) • A Princess of the Aerie (2003) • In the Hall of the Martian King (2003)The Daybreak series Directive 51 (2010) • Daybreak Zero (2011) • The Last President (2012)Other books The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky (1987) • Sin of Origin (1988) • Mother of Storms (1995) • Encounter with Tiber (1996) • One For the Morning Glory (1996) • Apocalypses & Apostrophes (1998) • Finity (1999) • The Return (2001) • Gaudeamus (2004) • Payback City (2007) • Tales of the Madman Underground (2009) • Losers in Space (2012)Categories:- 1991 novels
- 1990s science fiction novels
- American science fiction novels
- Novels by John Barnes
- 1990s science fiction novel stubs
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