Recursion

Tony Ballantyne

ISBN 10: 0330426990 / ISBN 13: 9780330426992

Published by Pan Macmillan, 2005

About this Item

It is the twenty-third century. Herb, a young entrepreneur, returns to the isolated planet on which he has illegally been trying to build a city-and finds it destroyed by a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Worse, the all-seeing Environment Agency has been watching him the entire time. His punishment? A nearly hopeless battle in the farthest reaches of the universe against enemy machines twice as fast, and twice as deadly, as his own-in the company of a disarmingly confident AI who may not be exactly what he claims.Little does Herb know that this war of machines was set in motion nearly two hundred years ago-by mankind itself. For it was then that a not-quite-chance encounter brought a confused young girl and a nearly omnipotent AI together in one fateful moment that may have changed the course of humanity forever.; Paperback met fris en schoon binnenwerk. Recht boekblok. Gave omslag. Leeslijntjes in de rug. Boek ruikt lichtjes naar tabak.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Recursion
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330426990
• ISBN 13: 9780330426992
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary fiction: general

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Synopsis

Herb returns to the remote planet he has been furtively trying to build a city on, to find it a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Eva has taken desperate steps to escape the tedium of her pointless life...only to end up in the super-intelligent clutches of a yellow mechanical digger. Constantine arrives at the remote part-idyllic, part-nightmare settlement of Stonebreak and - unsettlingly - begins to confront the truth of his own unreality. Meanwhile in the farthest reaches of outer space, the Enemy is plotting the final overthrow of the human race which created it.

About the Author

Tony Ballantyne has contributed regularly to SF magazines, and lives in the Manchester area. This is his first published novel.