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Seven Billion Light Years From Sol

Golden Sunlands

By Christopher Rowley  

5 Feb, 2026

Big Hair, Big Guns!

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Christopher Rowley’s 1987 Golden Sunlands is a stand-alone megastructure SF novel.

Federal Ranger Cracka Buckshore and his deputy Bat Maroon have big problems. Dashing scallywag Fodo Bathin has bamboozled pretty Martherer and her infatuated chum Nathan Prench into accompanying Fodo to Baytou City, there to have some fun. The fiend!

Martherer and Nathan’s parents are out for space frontier blood; Martherer’s because her parents are certain Fodo must have seduced their underage daughter1 and Nathan’s because Fodo is distracting Nathan from his homework.

Can even Cracka stop a good old space lynching?

SUDDENLY ALIENS ATTACK!

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