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named Sebastian Nightingale Cain, who receives a very valuable piece of information: a hint to the whereabouts of Santiago. Cain crosses paths with several others also hunting Santiago: besides competing bounty hunters, journalist Virtue Mackenzie wants an interview with Santiago to make her fortune,
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The setting of the novel is the Inner Frontier (the region toward the core of the Galaxy) of the interstellar Democracy which humans have formed. The title character, Santiago, is the most sought-after outlaw of the region if not the human universe.
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as one of the best SF books of 1986, describing it as "a carefully layered examination of the tension between individuality and responsibility, between legend and reality."
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reviewed the novel favorably, saying "Resnick was gutsy enough to set out to create a myth, and as far as I'm concerned, he succeeds on a grand scale." Card later rated
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The novel is divided into six parts, each named after one of the larger-than-life characters that populate the Inner Frontier, and headed by a
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and the master thief the Jolly Swagman covets some unique pieces of alien art in Santiago's possession.
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The novel and the expanded Birthright universe have been developed into a
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Mike Resnick
Michael Whelan
Birthright
Science fiction
Space Western
Tor Books
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0-8125-2256-7
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