Light Music (Nanotech Cycle, Book 4) - Softcover

Kathleen Ann Goonan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380803518 ISBN 13: 9780380803514

Publisher: Eos, 2003

Synopsis

In a concluding volume to the Nanotech Quartet, people begin vanishing in the wake of unearthly lights, and Jason Peabody, one of the few people who remember the Internet and accompanied by the resilient Dania, makes a startling discovery that prompts him to investigate the disappearances. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Kathleen Ann Goonan has published two previous books in her critically acclaimed "Nanotech Cycle," the first of which, Queen City Jazz, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She is also the author of Mississippi Blues, The Bones of Time, and numerous acclaimed short stories. She lives with her husband in Lakeland, Florida.

From Publishers Weekly:

In this exuberant if jumbled concluding volume of Goonan's Nanontech Quartet (Queen City Jazz, etc.), the microscopic machines of the 22nd century have gone beyond creating sentient cities and controlling all communications on Earth they are themselves evolving. When mysterious lights point to an alien presence and disappearing people arouse stark fear, three human survivors, including Argentine refugee Angelina, set out to solve the mystery and measure the threat to humanity. A lot of picaresque adventures ensue. Angelina's travels take her from an authoritarian Argentina across the Atlantic in a robot ship to North Africa, then in a mysterious one-way train to a nano-ruled Paris, accompanied all the while by a sapient doll (evolving toward humanity) named Chester. Nothing that happens to the other two, elderly Jason Peabody and his sidekick, Dania, is quite as interesting, until the Crescent City devolves into its original function as a spaceship and rides into orbit. As part of a grand scheme, humans and nanos eventually merge into a single entity linked to Earth. Readers new to the quartet will find the action hard to follow, while others may be put off by the author's at times less than polished narrative technique. Nonetheless, this classic novel of ideas, with state-of-the-art technology as its subject, remains the work of a powerful imagination with a superior command of language. (June 7)of Time.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Eos
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0380803518
• ISBN 13: 9780380803514
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416