Coalescent
Lean, taut storytelling . . . breakneck stuff . . . Arguably his most accessible book to date-Baxter [is] resplendent.-SFX magazineWhen his father dies suddenly, George Poole stumbles onto a family secret: He has a twin sister he never knew existed, who was raised by an enigmatic cult called the Order. The Order is a hive-a human hive with a dominant queen-that has prospered below the streets of Rome for almost two millennia. After Poole enters the Order's vast underground city and meets the disturbing inhabitants, he uncovers evidence that they have embarked on a divergent evolutionary path. These genetically superior humans are equipped wit…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-345-45787-5
- EAN: 9780345457875
- Produktnummer: 15732038
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'595 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 1
Über den Autor
Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge (mathematics) and Southampton Universities (doctorate in aeroengineering research). Baxter is the winner of the British Science Fiction Award and the Locus Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award, most recently for Manifold: Time. His novel Voyage won the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Novel of the Year; he also won the John W. Campbell Award and the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel The Time Ships. He is currently working on his next novel, a collaboration with Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
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