BIBFRAME Work

Title

The practice, the horizon, and the chain

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Samatar, Sofia (author)

Subject

• Autoritarisme--Romans, nouvelles, etc. (RVM)
• Prisonniers--Romans, nouvelles, etc. (RVM)
• Travail forcé--Romans, nouvelles, etc. (RVM)
• Authoritarianism (LCSH)
• Prisoners (LCSH)
• Interplanetary voyages--Fiction (SEARS)
• Capitalism--Fiction (SEARS)
• Dystopias (LCSH)
• Forced labor--Fiction (SEARS)
• Colleges and universities--Fiction (SEARS)
• Dystopies--Romans, nouvelles, etc. (RVM)
• Space mining (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Novellas (RVMGF)
• Fiction (LCGFT)
• Novellas (LCGFT)
• Science fiction (LCSH)
• Science fiction (LCGFT)
• novellas (AAT)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 813.6
• LCC: PS3619.A4496 P73 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Summary

The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes--literally--when he is yanked "upstairs" and informed he has been given an opportunity to be educated at the ship's university alongside the elite. Overwhelmed and alone, the boy forms a bond with the woman he comes to know as "the professor," a weary idealist and descendant of the Chained who has spent her career striving for validation from her more senior colleagues, only to fall short at every turn. Together, the boy and the woman will embark on a transformative journey to grasp the design of the chains that fetter them both--and are the key to breaking free. -- Back cover.

Authorized Access Point

Samatar, Sofia. The practice, the horizon, and the chain

Intended audience

• adult

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:21:17.912316+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24009960

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc