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In Extremis - Couverture souple

Collier, W. H.

 
9781469745091: In Extremis
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1469745097 ISBN 13 : 9781469745091
Editeur : iUniverse, 2012

Synopsis

A giant comet is hurtling toward Earth, and the world learns that all life on the planet will be obliterated in just seven days. Stanley's Comet is a gallows humor view of the precipitous decline of civil society upon the news. Events unfold from the perspective of Stanley Caldwell, a thirty-five year old assistant copy shop manager who resides with his mother in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Dr. Herschel Stanley, an embittered junior grade NASA astronomer whose accidental discovery of the comet catapults him from obscurity to momentary notoriety. In The Third Love, the followers of Smith, an executed convict who taught that good and evil are physical qualities controlled by the laws of "the physik" acquire a nuclear weapon with the intent of putting Smith's teachings into practice. The novel is set in the near future at a time when computers and efficient economics have relieved the majority of the need or even the opportunity to work. Instead, most pass their days in meaningless isolation watching multivision, a form of three-dimensional television and internet with a picture "more real than reality" The novel centers on the life of an ordinary guy in such a society, while following the President's political calculations that in the end coincide with the aims of the followers of Smith. Although the two novels of In Extremis are separate in conception, both are darkly humorous studies of individuals and societies under extreme stress and each explores the role of choice, chance and fate in determining the final outcome.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A giant comet is hurtling toward Earth, and the world learns that all life on the planet will be obliterated in just seven days. Stanley's Comet is a gallows humor view of the precipitous decline of civil society upon the news. Events unfold from the perspective of Stanley Caldwell, a thirty-five year old assistant copy shop manager who resides with his mother in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Dr. Herschel Stanley, an embittered junior grade NASA astronomer whose accidental discovery of the comet catapults him from obscurity to momentary notoriety. In The Third Love, the followers of Smith, an executed convict who taught that good and evil are physical qualities controlled by the laws of "the physik" acquire a nuclear weapon with the intent of putting Smith's teachings into practice. The novel is set in the near future at a time when computers and efficient economics have relieved the majority of the need or even the opportunity to work. Instead, most pass their days in meaningless isolation watching multivision, a form of three-dimensional television and internet with a picture "more real than reality" The novel centers on the life of an ordinary guy in such a society, while following the President's political calculations that in the end coincide with the aims of the followers of Smith. Although the two novels of In Extremis are separate in conception, both are darkly humorous studies of individuals and societies under extreme stress and each explores the role of choice, chance and fate in determining the final outcome.

Biographie de l'auteur

W.H. Collier is an attorney, historian and columnist who resides with his wife, Nicole, in Lafayette, Louisiana. He is the author of numerous works of short fiction, and his columns appear in various newspapers and magazines under the pen name, Nigel Bob Collins.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469745097
ISBN 13 
9781469745091
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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