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Moonseed - Couverture rigide

Livre 3 sur 3: NASA Trilogy

Baxter, Stephen

 
9780002254267: Moonseed
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0002254263 ISBN 13 : 9780002254267
Editeur : Voyager, 1998

Synopsis

In the 1970s astronauts brought rock samples back from the Moon. Many remained locked away for decades … including one unique piece of bedrock, the Moonseed. At last exposed to daylight, it proves to be deadly, though not to people. It kills the Earth.

In his new novel, Stephen Baxter, `the best SF author in Britain’ (SFX), contemplates rock – living rock. Transported to Earth by Apollo astronaut Jays Malone in 1972, a single shard of bedrock from the Moon contains within its innocuous-looking shell the power to destroy worlds.

Geologist Henry Meacher – his career at JPL in ruins, his marriage over – is given a sample of the Moon bedrock to analyse. He goes with it to Edinburgh University, the only place that will have him. There the deadly Moon rock accidentally comes into contact with the Earth’s core in the form of lava from Edinburgh’s famous extinct volcanoes. It turns solid rock to seething Moonseed dust. Soon perhaps the whole world will be infected.

Inspired, terrified, Henry Meacher is a changed man. If the worst happens, his plan is to take Earth’s displaced peoples from the Earth to the Moon. Baxter’s stunning story is one of disaster, desperate measures and damage limitation, forcing humanity to an excess of ingenuity and courage. Ironically, it is a newly terraformed Moon that holds the key to our survival…

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À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn’t make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer, and his novels and short stories have been published and won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.

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Éditeur
Voyager
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0002254263
ISBN 13 
9780002254267
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
544
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Indigo Musikproduktion + Vertrieb GmbH
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