Code of the Lifemaker

Hogan, James P.

ISBN 10: 0140073345 / ISBN 13: 9780140073348

Published by Penguin, 1985

About this Item

Tanned pages, some wear to cover edges, slight spine lean. Cover art by George Underwood.

Seller Inventory # 13817

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Code of the Lifemaker
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140073345
• ISBN 13: 9780140073348
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 300 grams

About this title

Synopsis

After an Earth landing-probe is dismantled by robots on Saturn's moon Titan, an interplanetary transport, carrying a variety of researchers, military men, and corporate representatives is secretly sent to discover the nature of Titan's intelligent life

From the Publisher

This is hard sf with wry humor by the author of the Giants series (INHERIT THE STARS, etc.). In the 21st century, a colony ship destined for Mars ends up on Titan. Its crew--including linguists, psychologists, parapsychology researchers, and a whole passel of soldiers-- encounters a strange race of beings: accidentally-evolved "robots," the offspring of an alien factory ship whose computers were addled by radiation a million years before. Newsday said, and I quote them because this is exactly what I like about Hogan's books, "Hogan skillfully draws the reader into a fascinating philosophical and theological debate, without ever forgetting he's supposed to entertain and tell a good story." (Don't ask me the difference between "entertain" and "tell a good story"; I'm not their editor! I thought journalists were supposed to not mince words...)

                                --Ellen Key Harris, Editor, Del Rey Books