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Synopsis
Originally published as an interactive novel on computer disk in 1986, Portal is the story of an astronaut who returns to earth from a mysteriously aborted mission prematurely awakened from suspended animation. One hundred years have passed; animals and plants thrive, cities stand intact. Every human being however has disappeared.
With the help of a slowly-reviving computer network, the astronaut begins to piece together the events of the last century. He learns of the child prodigy Peter Devore, of a world orchestrated by stunning new technologies, and of Peter's race against time to unlock the secrets of the Portal.
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From Publishers Weekly
After 100 years in space, an astronaut returns to Earth in the 22nd century to discover a planet empty of human life. A single flickering light signals one computer terminal left functioning to tell the story. This program, portentously named Homer, recalls a globe with no poverty, disease or crime, in which every person is watched over by the paternalistic worldnet computer system. Violence still erupts in the form of genetic weaponry that leads to the Mind Wars and stirs teenage genius Peter Devore to build a new science of psychic control, freeing the mind from the body. Formatted to look like computer printout, this novel was, in fact, previously released as computer software. That dubious novelty doesn't explain why it is so dull and lifeless, substituting neologisms and technological double talk for absent ideas, story and characters.
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An astronaut returns to an Earth devoid of human life. With a still-functioning computer network as his only ally and a namePeter Devoreas his only clue, the last man on Earth slowly pieces together an astonishing story that only he can bring to conclusion. The author's novelization of the computer game of the same name succeeds on its own as a gripping tale of one man's search for another man's secret. For large sf collections. JC
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- PublisherSt. Martin's Press
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0312014945
- ISBN 13 9780312014940
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages346
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