The Resource World engines, Destroyer, Stephen Baxter
World engines, Destroyer, Stephen Baxter
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The item World engines, Destroyer, Stephen Baxter represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- In the year 2570, a sleeper will wake... In the mid-21st century, the Kernel, a strange object on a five-hundred-year-orbit, is detected coming from high above the plane of the solar system. Could it be an alien artefact? In the middle of climate-change crises, there is no mood for space-exploration stunts - but Reid Malenfant, elderly, once a shuttle pilot and frustrated would-be asteroid miner, decides to go take a look anyway. Nothing more is heard of him. But his ex-wife, Emma Stoney, sets up a trust fund to search for him the next time the Kernel returns... By 2570 Earth is transformed. A mere billion people are supported by advanced technology on a world that is almost indistinguishable from the natural, with recovered forests, oceans, ice caps. It is not an age for expansion; there are only small science bases beyond the Earth. But this is a world you would want to live in: a Star Trek without the stars. After 500 years the Kernel returns, and a descendant of Stoney, who Malenfant will call Emma II, mounts a mission to see what became of Malenfant. She finds him still alive, cryo-preserved... His culture-shock encounter with a conservative future is entertaining... But the Kernel itself turns out to be attached to a kind of wormhole, through which Malenfant and Emma II, exploring further, plummet back in time, across five billion years..
- Language
- eng
- Label
- World engines, Destroyer
- Title
- World engines
- Title part
- Destroyer
- Statement of responsibility
- Stephen Baxter
- Title variation
- Destroyer
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the year 2570, a sleeper will wake... In the mid-21st century, the Kernel, a strange object on a five-hundred-year-orbit, is detected coming from high above the plane of the solar system. Could it be an alien artefact? In the middle of climate-change crises, there is no mood for space-exploration stunts - but Reid Malenfant, elderly, once a shuttle pilot and frustrated would-be asteroid miner, decides to go take a look anyway. Nothing more is heard of him. But his ex-wife, Emma Stoney, sets up a trust fund to search for him the next time the Kernel returns... By 2570 Earth is transformed. A mere billion people are supported by advanced technology on a world that is almost indistinguishable from the natural, with recovered forests, oceans, ice caps. It is not an age for expansion; there are only small science bases beyond the Earth. But this is a world you would want to live in: a Star Trek without the stars. After 500 years the Kernel returns, and a descendant of Stoney, who Malenfant will call Emma II, mounts a mission to see what became of Malenfant. She finds him still alive, cryo-preserved... His culture-shock encounter with a conservative future is entertaining... But the Kernel itself turns out to be attached to a kind of wormhole, through which Malenfant and Emma II, exploring further, plummet back in time, across five billion years..
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- Baxter, Stephen
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- Literary form
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- Astronauts
- Cryonics
- Time travel
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- World engines, Destroyer, Stephen Baxter
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066100006
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 564 pages
- Isbn
- 9781473223189
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)990851379
- Label
- World engines, Destroyer, Stephen Baxter
- Carrier category
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066100006
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 564 pages
- Isbn
- 9781473223189
- Media category
- unmediated
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- System control number
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