Arthur C. Clarke
Sunstorm
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Clarke and Baxter have mastered the art of saving the world in blockbuster style.-Entertainment Weekly Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the mysterious and powerful Firstborn, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth's history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back just a day after her disappearance? Bisesa's questions are answered when scientists discover an unnatural anomaly in the sun's core-evidence of alien intervention more than two thousand years ag…
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Clarke and Baxter have mastered the art of saving the world in blockbuster style.-Entertainment Weekly Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the mysterious and powerful Firstborn, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth's history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back just a day after her disappearance? Bisesa's questions are answered when scientists discover an unnatural anomaly in the sun's core-evidence of alien intervention more than two thousand years ago. Now plans set in motion by inscrutable observers light-years away are coming to fruition in a sunstorm designed to eradicate all life on Earth in a bombardment of radiation. As the apocalypse looms, religious and political differences on Earth threaten to undermine every countereffort. And all the while, the Firstborn are watching. . . . Praise for SunstormAn absolute must for science fiction fans.-All Things Considered, NPR Enthralling . . . highly satisfying.-The New York Times Book ReviewWill keep readers turning pages.-Publishers Weekly
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Weitere Autoren: Baxter, Stephen
- ISBN: 978-0-345-45251-1
- EAN: 9780345452511
- Produktnummer: 18234046
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H17.5 cm x B10.9 cm x D2.2 cm 222 g
- Gewicht: 222
Über den Autor
ARTHUR C. CLARKE is considered the greatest science fiction writer of all time and is an international treasure in many other ways, including the fact that a 1945 article by him in 1945 led to the invention of satellite technology. Books by Clarke-both fiction and nonfiction-have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. He lives in Sri Lanka.STEPHEN BAXTER is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge and Southampton universities. Baxter is the acclaimed author of the Manifold novels and Evolution. He is the winner of the British Science Fiction Award, the Locus Award, the John W. Campbell Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award.
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