Putting Up Roots - Softcover

Sheffield, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612421989 ISBN 13: 9781612421988

Publisher: Phoenix Pick, 2019

Synopsis

Scheming to get rid of obstacles, Josh Kerrigan’s step-aunt ships him and her autistic step-daughter to Solferino to work for Foodlines. Josh and Dawn join a small training group that is ostensibly doing scientific research and exploration under the watchful eye of the company.But as the days go by and strange occurrences and mysterious happenings continue, it becomes apparent that something is very wrong and that someone has very different plans for the planet.Even more importantly, Josh and the other members of the training team realize that they are being lied to about intelligent life existing on the planet and then it becomes a race against time to save those creatures as well as themselves.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Charles Sheffield seems to thrive on all that makes SF fun to read." --Starlog

"Charles Sheffield has been called 'the new Arthur C. Clarke.'...if anyone can do a better job of it, I'd like to know about him." --The Washington Post Book World

"A scientist with a fine literary sense." --Denver Post

"Sheffield's writing is literate and clean." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune

About the Author:

Charles Sheffield (1935-2002) was a mathematician and theoretical physicist by training. His doctoral work was on Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Dr. Sheffield worked as chief scientist for the Earth Satellite Corporation, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that specializes in the analysis of data gathered from space.

The author of many science fiction novels, including" Cold as Ice" and" The Ganymede Club" from Tor, Sheffield lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, author Nancy Kress.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix Pick
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1612421989
• ISBN 13: 9781612421988
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218