Manifold: Time

Zusatztext “Remarkable . . . intriguing . . . fast-paced.” — The Washington Post “Reading Manifold: Time is like sending your mind to the gym for a brisk workout. If you don’t feel both exhausted and exhilarated when you’re done! you haven't been working hard enough.” — The New York Times Book Review “A staggering novel! If you ever thought you understood time! you’ll be quickly disillusioned when you read Manifold: Time .” —Sir Arthur C. Clarke Informationen zum Autor Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge (mathematics) and Southampton Universities (doctorate in aeroengineering research). He has worked with Rolls Royce Ltd., and at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, U.K. In his research, Baxter visited NASA launch centers, viewed a shuttle launch, and interviewed both a NASA mission controller and an astronaut. He also conducted extensive research into the history of NASA, scientific studies of Mars, astronauts, and other key players. As an acclaimed author, Stephen Baxter is the winner of both The British Science Fiction Award and the Locus Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award and a Hugo Award. His novel Voyage won the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Novel of the Year; he also won the John W. Campbell Award and the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel The Time Ships. Klappentext "Reading Manifold: Time is like sending your mind to the gym for a brisk workout. If you don't feel both exhausted and exhilirated when you're done, you haven't been working hard enough."-The New York Times Book Review The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world's governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter future. That man, Reid Malenfant, has a very different solution to the problems plaguing the planet: the exploration and colonization of space. Now Malenfant gambles the very existence of time on a single desperate throw of the dice. Battling national sabotage and international outcry, as apocalyptic riots sweep the globe, he builds a spacecraft and launches it into deep space. The odds are a trillion to one against him. Or are they? "A staggering novel! If you ever thought you understood time, you'll be quickly disillusioned when you read Manifold: Time."-Sir Arthur C. ClarkeReid Malenfant   You know me. And you know I'm a space cadet. You know I've campaigned for, among other things, private mining expeditions to the asteroids. In fact, in the past I've tried to get you to pay for such things. I've bored you with that often enough already, right? So tonight I want to look a little farther out. Tonight I want to tell you why I care so much about this issue that I devoted my life to it. The world isn't big enough any more. You don't need me to stand here and tell you that. We could all choke to death, be extinct in a hundred years. Or we could be on our way to populating the Galaxy. Yes, the Galaxy. Want me to tell you how? Turns out it's all a question of economics. Let's say we set out to the stars. We might use ion rockets, solar sails, gravity assists. It doesn't matter. We'll probably start as we have in the Solar System, with automated probes. Humans may follow. One percent of the helium-3 fusion fuel available from the planet Uranus, for example, would be enough to send a giant interstellar ark, each ark containing a billion people, to every star in the Galaxy. But it may be cheaper for the probes to manufacture humans in situ, using cell synthesis and artificial womb technology. The first wave will be slow, no faster than we can afford. It doesn't matter. Not in the long term. When the probe reaches a new system, it phones h...

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Baxter
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.11.2000
• EAN: 9780345430762
• ISBN: 978-0-345-43076-2
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 172 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Manifold; Manifold (Paperback); Manifold
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature