Earth

Fülszöveg

Few writers have made a greater impact on
contemporary science fiction than David Brin. His
novels and stories have won him multiple Hugo
and Nebula awards, and he was voted Favorite
Writer of the '80s by Locus magazine. Now the
New York Times bestselling author of Startide
Rising and The Uplift War delivers his most
important, most ambitious, and most universal
novel to date-a blockbuster epic that transcends
every genre in scope and importance
It's fifty years from tomorrow. A microscopic black
hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core
and the entire planet is in danger of being
destroyed within two years. A team of scientists
frantically searches for a way to prevent the
ultimate disaster. But while they look for an
answer, others argue that the only way to save the
Earth is to let its human inhabitants become
extinct: to let the million-year evolutionary clock
rewind and start all over again.
From an underground lab in New Zealand to a
space... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Few writers have made a greater impact on
contemporary science fiction than David Brin. His
novels and stories have won him multiple Hugo
and Nebula awards, and he was voted Favorite
Writer of the '80s by Locus magazine. Now the
New York Times bestselling author of Startide
Rising and The Uplift War delivers his most
important, most ambitious, and most universal
novel to date-a blockbuster epic that transcends
every genre in scope and importance
It's fifty years from tomorrow. A microscopic black
hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core
and the entire planet is in danger of being
destroyed within two years. A team of scientists
frantically searches for a way to prevent the
ultimate disaster. But while they look for an
answer, others argue that the only way to save the
Earth is to let its human inhabitants become
extinct: to let the million-year evolutionary clock
rewind and start all over again.
From an underground lab in New Zealand to a
space station in Low Earth Orbit, from an
endangered-species conservation ark in Africa to
a home in New Orleans, Earth is much more than
an edge-of-the-seat thriller. It is a novel peopled
with extraordinary characters and challenging
new ideas: a brilliant, devoted young scientist who
discovers his life's work may be responsible for
destroying the world; a hard bitten shuttle pilot
who vows to learn the secret of her husband's
tragic death; a legendary Nobel laureate whose
relationship with the planet borders on the
mystical; a midwestern youth who leaves behind
the boredom of suburban American life for the
dangers of the unknown; a Maori billionaire who
fears that all his money cannot control his fate—or
the fate of the world. Vissza