Growing Up Weightless
Growing Up Weightless by John M. Ford is a reissue from Tor Publishing Group, published on September 27, 2022. This edition spans 240 pages and is presented in English. The narrative follows Matthias Ronay, who has grown up in the low gravity of Luna, where he grapples with the expectations set by his father, a council member in their complex society. Feeling constrained by a world that lacks the spirit of exploration and innovation, Matt and his friends embark on a secret adventure that promises to alter their lives in unforeseen ways.
Readers will find a blend of fiction, thrillers, and science fiction in this story, which explores themes of coming of age and espionage against the backdrop of a human-colonized Moon. As Matt and his friends navigate their journey to Farside, they confront the challenges of their environment and their own aspirations. This edition also includes a new introduction by Francis Spufford, adding further context to Ford’s classic work, which has been out of print for over two decades.
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Out of print for more than two decades, John M. Ford’s Growing Up Weightless is an award-winning classic of a “lost generation” of young people born on the human-colonized Moon.
Matthias Ronay has grown up in the low gravity and great glass citadels of independent Luna—and in the considerable shadow of his father, a member of the council that governs Luna’s increasingly complex society. But Matt feels weighed down on the world where he was born, where there is no more need for exploration, for innovation, for radical ideas—and where his every movement can be tracked by his father on the infonets.
Matt and five of his friends, equally brilliant and restless, have planned a secret adventure. They will trick the electronic sentinels, slip out of the city for a journey to Farside. Their passage into the expanse of perpetual night will change them in ways they never could have predicted…and bring Matt to the destiny for which he has yearned.
With a new introduction by Francis Spufford, author of Red Plenty and Golden Hill.
Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure.
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