GREASE MONKEY - Couverture souple

Eldred, Tim

 
9780765313263: GREASE MONKEY
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 076531326X ISBN 13 : 9780765313263
Editeur : Tor Trade, 2008

Synopsis

Caught in the crossfire of an interstellar war, our Earth was bombed to flinders--and then repaired. The mysterious alien Benefactors who healed the planet also offered "uplift" to our dolphins and gorillas. The dolphins turned them down. The gorillas said yes. As a result, we're now sharing our world with language-using, tool-making simians. Tensions are inevitable, in both directions, but it's gradually working out.

Decades later, teenage cadet Robin Plotnik has been assigned to Fist of Earth, a defense station high above Earth, keeping watch against further attacks by the interstellar Horde. Robin's a spacecraft mechanic-in-training, apprenticed to Chief "Mac" Gimbensky, a cranky but basically benign gorilla with issues of his own.

Fist of Earth is a challenging place to grow up. Robin and Mac maintain fighter craft for the all-woman "Barbarian Squadron", which constantly competes for prestige with the other squadrons based on Fist of Earth. Robin's trying to romance a young librarian, and he's far from sure he knows what he's doing. Most of all, he's constantly struggling to figure out his moody, mercurial boss.

Then he and his best friend become entangled in a burgeoning scandal over betting on the squadrons' standings. And just when things look like they've hit rock bottom, the worst thing imaginable arrives at Fist of Earth: an efficiency expert from Earth, determined to reorganize Robin's hard-won life, and the whole squadron system, out of existence.

Fresh and engaging, crammed with likeable characters and science-fictional inventiveness, Grease Monkey is like a classic "Heinlein juvenile" in sequential-art mode.

Introduction by Kurt Busiek, author of Astro City

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À propos de l?auteur

Author and artist Tim Eldred lives in San Diego, California. His books include Grease Monkey.

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Éditeur
Tor Trade
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
076531326X
ISBN 13 
9780765313263
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
354
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
PILOT CORPORATION OF EUROPE
https://www.pilotpen.de/

PAE DE LA CAILLE
ALLONZIER LA CAILLE
France

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0765313251 ISBN 13 :  9780765313256
Editeur : Tor Books, 2006
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