The Memory of Whiteness: A Scientific Romance

An early novel from Science Fiction legend Kim Stanley Robinson The Memory of Whiteness is now available for the first time in decades. . In 3229 A.D. human civilization is scattered among the planets moons and asteroids of the solar system. Billions of lives depend on the technology derived from the breakthroughs of the greatest physicist of the age Arthur Holywelkin. But in the last years of his life Holywelkin devoted himself to building a strange beautiful and complex musical instrument that he called The Orchestra.. Johannes Wright has earned the honor of becoming the Ninth Master of Holywelkins Orchestra. Follow him on his Grand Tour of the Solar System as he journeys down the gravity well toward the sun impelled by a destiny he can scarcely understand and is pursued by mysterious foes who will tell him anything except the reason for their enmity.