Galileo's Dream

Galileo’s Dream is a work of historical fiction. Apart from the well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to currect events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2009 by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Published in the United States by Spectra, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress-in-Publication Data

Robinson, Kim Stanley.

Galileo’s dream / Kim Stanley Robinson.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-345-51966-5

1. Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642—Trials, litigation, etc.—Fiction. 2. Religion and science—Italy—History—17th century—Fiction. 3. Space colonies—Fiction.

4. Outer space—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3568.O2893G35 2010

813’.54—dc22 2009042729

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