Gradisil - Couverture souple

Roberts, Adam

 
9781591025382: Gradisil
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1591025389 ISBN 13 : 9781591025382
Editeur : Prometheus Books, 2007

Synopsis

"Gradisil" is an epic space opera of family revenge and the birth of a nation. Not very long from now, if you are wealthy, space can be yours, space to grow. New technology has seeded a rebirth of the pioneer spirit. A new breed of adventurer has slipped the bonds of gravity and begun a fresh life in orbit, free from interference by government, free from the petty concerns of earth. Who wouldn't want such freedom? Who wouldn't want to escape from society's tangles - from the claws of the corporations, from the stifling love of family? But tradition, fear, and revenge carry a murderous weight, a gravity that is not so easy to escape. The death of Gradisil's grandfather, floating high in the uplands above earth, was only the beginning. And now the US government is looking up at the new nation above our heads with jealous eyes.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Gradisil is an epic space opera of family revenge and the birth of a nation.

Not very long from now, if you are wealthy, space can be yours, space to grow. New technology has seeded a rebirth of the pioneer spirit. A new breed of adventurer has slipped the bonds of gravity and begun a fresh life in orbit, free from interference by government, free from the petty concerns of earth.

Who wouldn’t want such freedom? Who wouldn’t want to escape from society’s tangles — from the claws of the corporations, from the stifling love of family?

But tradition, fear, and revenge carry a murderous weight, a gravity that is not so easy to escape. The death of Gradisil’s grandfather, floating high in the uplands above earth, was only the beginning. And now the US government is looking up at the new nation above our heads with jealous eyes.

Biographie de l'auteur

Adam Roberts is professor of nineteenth-century literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of six novels: Salt (2000), On (2001), Stone (2002), Polystom (2003), The Snow (2004), and Gradisil (2006), and two novellas Park Polar (2001) and Jupiter Magnified (2003). His first novel, Salt, was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He has also published a number of academic works on both nineteenth-century poetry and SF, as well as five parodies: The Soddit (2003), The McAtrix Derided (2003), The Sellamillion (2004), Star Warped (2005), and The Va Dinci Cod (2005). He lives with his wife and daughter west of London.

Visit Adam Roberts's Web site at www.adamroberts.com.

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Éditeur
Prometheus Books
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1591025389
ISBN 13 
9781591025382
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
464
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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