To Be Taught, If Fortunate: A Hugo Award-Nominated Science Fiction Novella of Space Exploration Fifteen Light-Years from Home - Couverture souple

Chambers, Becky

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0062936018 ISBN 13 : 9780062936011

Editeur : Harper Voyager, 2019

Synopsis

National Bestseller!

A Hugo and Locus Award Nominee!

“Extraordinary . . . A future sci-fi masterwork in a new and welcome tradition.” ― Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat

A stand-alone science fiction novella from the award-winning, bestselling, critically-acclaimed author of the Wayfarers series.

At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. They can produce antifreeze in subzero temperatures, absorb radiation and convert it for food, and conveniently adjust to the pull of different gravitational forces. With the fragility of the body no longer a limiting factor, human beings are at last able to journey to neighboring exoplanets long known to harbor life.

A team of these explorers, Ariadne O’Neill and her three crewmates, are hard at work in a planetary system fifteen light-years from Sol, on a mission of space exploration to ecologically survey four habitable worlds. But as Ariadne shifts through both form and time, the culture back on Earth has also been transformed. Faced with the possibility of returning to a planet that has forgotten those who have left, Ariadne begins to chronicle the story of the wonders and dangers of her exoplanet survey mission, in the hope that someone back home might still be listening.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Becky Chambers is a science fiction author based in Northern California. She is best known for her Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series, which currently includes The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, and Record of a Spaceborn Few. Her books have also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others. Her most recent work is To Be Taught, If Fortunate, a standalone novella.

Becky has a background in performing arts, and grew up in a family heavily involved in space science. She spends her free time playing video and tabletop games, keeping bees, and looking through her telescope. Having hopped around the world a bit, she’s now back in her home state, where she lives with her wife. She hopes to see Earth from orbit one day.

 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Voyager
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0062936018
• ISBN 13: 9780062936011
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
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