Recursion

Ballantyne, Tony

ISBN 10: 1405041390 / ISBN 13: 9781405041393

Published by Tor, london, 2004

About this Item

london: Tor:, 2004. First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, Fine, 457 pp. Cover artwork by: Dominic Harman A first novel. Herb returns to his isolated planet only to find it overrun by a swarm of self-replicating machinery. He's got an offer for help from a suave intruder, but the offer for help might create more problems than it will solve. First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, Fine,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Recursion
• Publisher: Tor, london
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405041390
• ISBN 13: 9781405041393
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Dominic Harman
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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