# The Centauri Device

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- Book: [The Centauri Device](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-johnson/the-centauri-device) ([The Centauri Device.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-johnson/the-centauri-device.md))
- Authors: [Jane Johnson](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-johnson)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-18-5798-997-7
- Published: 2000-07-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans - or at least, half of him was - which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war. M. John Harrison's classic novel turns the conventions of space opera on their head, and is written with the precision and brilliance for which is famed.