History Lives - Couverture souple

Ryder, Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 069226535X ISBN 13 : 9780692265352

Editeur : Mbd Publications, 2014

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In the year 2154, Henry VIII, dead for over five centuries, sits on a television stage in San Francisco talking about his life to Robert Delacroix, a real live interviewer. Henry is the first of several fascinating historical characters created from information fed to a mysterious machine called MONTY. Its ability to process the information is not fully understood by the inventors, but the result is an apparently real person who can talk, think, laugh, scream invective, and pound the walls of the cubicle enclosing it. At the end of each interview, the subject returns to MONTY as digital information, and Robert returns to the real world and his own struggles with life. Once a month, he mounts the stage for another interview. Then, suddenly, the world changes. The action moves from San Francisco to Asia, as the story veers in a different direction.

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� propos de l'auteur

Edward Ryder was born in New York City. He attended local schools and then Cornell University, where he earned a B.S. degree in plant sciences. He received a Ph. D. in genetics at the University of California-Davis. After serving two years in the U.S Army, he began a long career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Salinas, CA. During that period he produced over 100 publications related to his work with lettuce and other leafy vegetables and released 17 lettuce varieties. He retired in 2003 and took up fiction writing. This is his second novel.

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