Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route . So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire , recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist -an informational topologist with half his mind gone-as an interface between here and there . Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find.
| EAN: | 9781250237484 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 21.04.2020 |
| Produktform: | Kartoniert |
| Titel der Reihe: | Firefall#1# |
| Autoren: | Watts, Peter |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 384 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction~FICTION / Science Fiction / Alien Contact |
| Keyword: | space horror; religious sci fi; faith based sf; alien vampire; zombie soldier; alien overlord; scifi scientist; evolution; singularity; far future; genetic engineering; post humanism; posthuman; after humans; existential; artificial intelligence; disturbing; first contact; consciousness; speculative fiction; philosophical; canadian authors |
| Fachschema: | Fiction - Science Fiction |
| Fachkategorie: | Science-Fiction: Außerirdische/UFOs |
| Imprint-Titels: | Firefall |
| Text Sprache: | eng |
| Verlag: | TOR BOOKS, Macmillan USA |
| Länge: | 204 mm |
| Breite: | 134 mm |
| Höhe: | 28 mm |
| Gewicht: | 322 gr |
| Genre: | Importe |
| Herkunftsland: | VEREINIGTE STAATEN VON AMERIKA (US) |