EARTH. - Hardcover
The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War- an epic novel set 50 years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world.
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About the Author:
David Brin is a scientist and the bestselling author of Sundiver, The Uplift War, Startide Rising, The Practice Effect, The Postman, Heart of the Comet (with Gregory Benford), Earth, Glory Season, Brightness Reef, and Infinity's Shore, as well as the short-story collections The River of Time and Otherness. He has a doctorate in astrophysics and has been a NASA consultant and a physics professor.
From Publishers Weekly:
Weaving an epic of complex dimensions, Brin ( Startide Rising ) plaits initially divergent story lines, all set in the year 2038, into an outstandingly satisfying novel. At the center is a type of mystery: after a failed murder attempt, a group of people try to save the victim, recover the murder weapon, identify the guilty party and fend off other assassins, all the while being led through n + 1 plot twists--each with a sense of overhanging doom, because the intended victim is Gaea, Earth herself. The struggle to save the planet gives Brin the occasion to recap recent global events: a world war fought to wrest all caches of secret information from the grip of an elite few; a series of ecological disasters brought about by environmental abuse; and the effects of a universal interactive data network on beginning to turn the world into a true global village. Fully dimensional and engaging characters with plausible motivations bring drama to these scenarios. Brin's exciting prose style will probably make this a Hugo nominee, and will certainly keep readers turning pages.
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- PublisherBANTAM. NY 1990
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0356190994
- ISBN 13 9780356190990
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages624
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's fifty years from tomorrow, and a black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core. A team of scientists frantically searches for a way to prevent the mishap from causing harm, only to discover another black hole already feeding relentlessly at the core - one that could destroy the planet within two years. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001752452
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. States "First published in Great Britain in 1990 by Macdonald & Co (Publishers) Ltd." Signed "David S Brin" (name only) to the title page. NOT price clipped, although the original British price (in pounds, presumably) to bottom of jacket front flap has been covered with a day-glo green $25.95 price sticker from the "Outer Limits" bookstore (a common name for comics-heavy retailers, this one almost certainly in Las Vegas, now defunct). Brin, an astrophysicist probably best known as author of "The Postman," promotes at the back of this book the works of Paul Ehrlich, as well as such groups as The Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy, and, yes, Greenpeace. A whopping 601 pp., now reduced from $65. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 009306
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