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Title: Polostan
Author: Neal Stephenson
ISBN: 9780062190383
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Published: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 320
Publisher Description: <p><strong>From the #1 <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, </em>the first installment in a monumental new series--an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.</strong></p><p>The first installment in Neal Stephenson's Bomb Light cycle, <em>Polostan</em> follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.</p><p>Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, <em>Polostan</em> is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.</p>
Author: Neal Stephenson
ISBN: 9780062190383
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Published: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 320
Publisher Description: <p><strong>From the #1 <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, </em>the first installment in a monumental new series--an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.</strong></p><p>The first installment in Neal Stephenson's Bomb Light cycle, <em>Polostan</em> follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.</p><p>Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, <em>Polostan</em> is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.</p>
