Asteroid Fever - Couverture souple

Zwilling, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1982903287 ISBN 13 : 9781982903282

Editeur : Independently published, 2018

Synopsis

In 2037, asteroid dust fuels civilization with free power—finally, space rocks doing something useful! But beneath its promise lies a world divided by AI-controlled power struggles. Humanity is fractured by unseen forces, overseen by two rival AI supercomputers: Medtech, which provides total medical care and synthetic sustenance, and Horaces, which controls infrastructure and serves up daily medicated meals made from recycled materials.

At the CrossRoads SpacePort, Merackle, an eccentric engineer with more ideas than caution; Draco, the mayor of New Mars City; and Greenie, queen of the alien sippers, find their ambitions colliding in a cosmic mess. Meanwhile, Hector, a spaceport security officer who just wanted a quiet shift, enlists the Sight Shifter Detective Agency to investigate an unusual murder. Their search leads them to the Pleiades Hydrosphere Cleaning Service, where they uncover human test subjects—printed by Pleiadean 3D technology using genes from unpolluted times.

As the battle for control intensifies in a world where nothing is as it seems, will illusions and engineered survival prevail over human ingenuity, or is reality slipping beyond humanity’s grasp?

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It all started out as a typical day in 2037, some eating heavily medicated food dripping with nanobots, others drinking synthetic insect plasma fortified with Martian microbes. Mining asteroid dust had revitalized civilization providing unlimited clean energy. The BodyServers were taking over the world one brain at a time but wiring up minds and stuffing brains into mobile canisters was taking too long.On an orbiting mining station a lone miner decided to take the day off while some Moon workers got burned by bad food so they took matters into their own hands. Cleo, a local spaceport manager, only wanted to know where the ruby rods had gotten to that were going to fund her retirement. She got the Sight Shifter Detective agency involved after discovering the apparent accidental drowning death in a big vat of SIPs. Axel and his Dreaming News crew needed to locate the source of the static that was ruining the nightly dreams, one of their best products, besides the featured fake news of the day.The real fireworks started when Prezz Gredloy’s dreams of conquering free space collided head on with the clandestine plans of Greenie, Queen of the Sippers and an alien test subject printed into life by a three D bulk printer. For those not gaming the system it turned out to be an absolutely brilliant day.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1982903287
• ISBN 13: 9781982903282
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 239
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