Sedgwick, Marcus,

The ghosts of heaven / Marcus Sedgwick. - First American edition. - 359 pages ; 22 cm

"First published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by Orion Children's Books, London."

Four linked stories of discovery and survival begin with a Paleolithic-era girl who makes the first written signs, continue with Anna, who people call a witch, then a mad twentieth-century poet who watches the ocean knowing the horrors it hides, and concluding with an astronaut on the first spaceship from Earth sent to colonize another world.

ISBN: 9781626721258 (hardback) 9781250073679 (trade paperback)

LCCN: 2014040471

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Space and time--Fiction.
Science fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.S4484 / Gho 2015

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]