The Singularity Project

Busby, F.M.

ISBN 10: 0812521307 / ISBN 13: 9780812521306

Published by TOR, 1994

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David Richard cover art.

Seller Inventory # 01058992

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Singularity Project
• Publisher: TOR
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812521307
• ISBN 13: 9780812521306
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: 1st Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Inside covers lightly tanned
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction - Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Synopsis

Someone will stop at nothing--even murder--to thwart the spread of the matter transmitter, a new invention that threatens to transform the world--if it is not a hoax. Original.

From Publishers Weekly

The author of The Breeds of Men stretches a short story plot to the breaking point in this well-written but transparently thin futuristic novel starring Mitch Banning, a freelance telecommunications expert and part-time science writer. Banning falls in with a con artist who has talked an eccentric millionaire into funding the development of a teleportation device. Then someone calling himself the Green Hornet begins killing people associated with the project and threatening others in an extortion attempt. Although the teleportation process seems to work at first, Banning figures out the con, which, in a double flip, may succeed after all. As always, Busby's uniquely gritty prose style is a pleasure, his characters real and individual and his near-future completely convincing. But the stretching devices are painful: obstacles are thrown in the paths of characters merely to drag out the story, and the last third of the book is an overextended epilogue.
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