Earth - Hardcover

Brin, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553070649 ISBN 13: 9780553070644

Publisher: Spectra, 1990

Synopsis

Fifty years in the future, scientists race against time to mend a black hole in the Earth's core before it destroys the entire planet within two years

About this title

About the Author:

David Brin is a scientist and the bestselling author of Sundiver, The Uplift War, Startide Rising, The Practice Effect, The Postman, Heart of the Comet (with Gregory Benford), Earth, Glory Season, Brightness Reef, and Infinity's Shore, as well as the short-story collections The River of Time and Otherness. He has a doctorate in astrophysics and has been a NASA consultant and a physics professor.

From Publishers Weekly:

Weaving an epic of complex dimensions, Brin ( Startide Rising ) plaits initially divergent story lines, all set in the year 2038, into an outstandingly satisfying novel. At the center is a type of mystery: after a failed murder attempt, a group of people try to save the victim, recover the murder weapon, identify the guilty party and fend off other assassins, all the while being led through n + 1 plot twists--each with a sense of overhanging doom, because the intended victim is Gaea, Earth herself. The struggle to save the planet gives Brin the occasion to recap recent global events: a world war fought to wrest all caches of secret information from the grip of an elite few; a series of ecological disasters brought about by environmental abuse; and the effects of a universal interactive data network on beginning to turn the world into a true global village. Fully dimensional and engaging characters with plausible motivations bring drama to these scenarios. Brin's exciting prose style will probably make this a Hugo nominee, and will certainly keep readers turning pages.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Spectra
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0553070649
• ISBN 13: 9780553070644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608