Manifold - space

Zusatztext “As always! [Stephen] Baxter plays with space and time with consummate skill. . . . He continues to be one of the leading writers of hard science fiction! and one of the most thought-provoking as well.” — Science Fiction Chronicle “When the travel bug bites and usual planets don’t excite! perhaps it’s time to burst the bounds of this old solar system and really see the sights. . . . Baxter’s expansive new novel is just the ticket.” — The Washington Times  “Breathtaking in its originality and scope.” — The Washington Post Informationen zum Autor Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge (mathematics) and Southampton Universities (doctorate in aeroengineering research). 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, most recently for Manifold: Time . 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 "As always, [Stephen] Baxter plays with space and time with consummate skill. . . . He continues to be one of the leading writers of hard science fiction, and one of the most thought-provoking as well."-Science Fiction Chronicle The year is 2020. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Reid Malenfant ventures to the far edge of the solar system, where he discovers a strange artifact left behind by an alien civilization: A gateway that functions as a kind of quantum transporter, allowing virtually instantaneous travel over the vast distances of interstellar space. What lies on the other side of the gateway? Malenfant decides to find out. Yet he will soon be faced with an impossible choice that will push him beyond terror, beyond sanity, beyond humanity itself. Meanwhile on Earth the Japanese scientist Nemoto fears her worst nightmares are coming true. Startling discoveries reveal that the Moon, Venus, even Mars once thrived with life-life that was snuffed out not just once but many times, in cycles of birth and destruction. And the next chilling cycle is set to begin again . . . "When the travel bug bites and usual planets don't excite, perhaps it's time to burst the bounds of this old solar system and really see the sights. . . . Baxter's expansive new novel is just the ticket."-The Washington Times "Breathtaking in its originality and scope."-The Washington Post Gaijin A passenger in the Hope-3 tug, Reid Malenfant descended toward the Moon. The Farside base, called Edo, was a cluster of concrete components—habitation modules, power plants, stores, manufacturing facilities—half buried in the cratered plain. Comms masts sprouted like angular flowers. The tug pad was just a splash of scorched moondust concrete, a couple of kilometers farther out. Around the station itself, the regolith was scarred by tractor traffic. Robots were everywhere, rolling, digging, lifting; Edo was growing like a colony of bacilli in nutrient. A hi-no-maru, a Japanese Sun flag, was fixed to a pole at the center of Edo. “You are welcome to my home,” Nemoto said. She met him in the pad’s air lock: a large, roomy chamber blown into the regolith. Her face was broad, pale, her eyes black; her hair was elaborately shaved, showing the shape of her skull. She smiled, apparently habitually. She could have been no more than half Malenfant’s age, perhaps thirty. Nemoto helped Malenfant don the suit he’d been fitted with during the flight from Earth. The suit was a brilliant orange. It clung to him comfortably, the joints easy and loose, although the sewn-in plates of tungsten armor were heavy. “It’s a hell of a development from the old EMUs I wore when I was flying shuttle,” he said, ...

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Baxter
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2002
• EAN: 9780345430786
• ISBN: 978-0-345-43078-6
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 175 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Manifold; Manifold (Paperback); Manifold; Manifold (Paperback)
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy