The Resource The thing itself, Adam Roberts
The thing itself, Adam Roberts
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The item The thing itself, Adam Roberts represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters' The Thing. Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of them has received. One is practical and open. The other surly, superior and obsessed with reading one book - by the philosopher Kant. As a storm brews and they lose contact with the outside world they debate Kant, reality and the emptiness of the universe. The come to hate each other, and they learn that they are not alone
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The thing itself
- Title
- The thing itself
- Statement of responsibility
- Adam Roberts
- Subject
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- trueAntarctica
- Antarctica -- Fiction
- trueFermi's paradox
- Fermi's paradox -- Fiction
- trueInterpersonal conflict
- trueLove letters
- Nineteen eighties -- Fiction
- truePhilosophy
- truePsychological fiction
- trueAliens
- trueScientific expeditions
- trueScientists
- Scientists -- Fiction
- trueSocial isolation
- trueSolitude -- Psychological aspects
- trueStorms
- trueScience fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters' The Thing. Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of them has received. One is practical and open. The other surly, superior and obsessed with reading one book - by the philosopher Kant. As a storm brews and they lose contact with the outside world they debate Kant, reality and the emptiness of the universe. The come to hate each other, and they learn that they are not alone
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- 10467057
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- Roberts, Adam
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- Literary form
- fiction
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- Fermi's paradox
- Scientists
- Nineteen eighties
- Antarctica
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- The thing itself, Adam Roberts
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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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
- 000057044517
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 358 pages
- Isbn
- 9780575127722
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)920864808
- Label
- The thing itself, Adam Roberts
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000057044517
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 358 pages
- Isbn
- 9780575127722
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)920864808
Subject
- trueAntarctica
- Antarctica -- Fiction
- trueFermi's paradox
- Fermi's paradox -- Fiction
- trueInterpersonal conflict
- trueLove letters
- Nineteen eighties -- Fiction
- truePhilosophy
- truePsychological fiction
- trueAliens
- trueScientific expeditions
- trueScientists
- Scientists -- Fiction
- trueSocial isolation
- trueSolitude -- Psychological aspects
- trueStorms
- trueScience fiction
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