Signal to Noise - Softcover

Nylund, Eric S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380792923 ISBN 13: 9780380792924

Publisher: Harper Voyager, 1999

Synopsis

Jack Potter puts computer cryptography to work for the highest bidder: sometimes for private corporations, sometimes for the government. Sometimes the work is legal; if not, Jack simply raises his price. But one day, Jack discovers something cloaked in the hiss of background radiation streaming past the Earth from deep space: a message from an alien civilization. One that's eager to do business with humanity -- and its representative.

Before he knows it, Jack has entered into a partnership that will open a Pandora's Box of potential profit and loss. The governments, the multinationals, and mysterious players more powerful still, all want a piece of the action -- and they're willing to kill, even wage war, to get it. Now Jack is entangled shifting web of deceit and intrigue in which no one, not even his closest friends, can be trusted. For Earth's cloak-and-dagger business practices are writ large in the heavens...and hostile takeovers are just as common across light years as they are across boardroom tables.

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Review:

"A fine adventure novel in the cyberpunk tradition. But it's what Potter discovers along the way that makes the novel so telling...A strong novel, not only for its biting social satire, but also for the compelling and fast-moving plot, and richly textured characters. We follow Potter through a kaleidoscope of fear, paranoia, betrayal, and finally desperate hope, as he tries to survive in a world more like our own than we might like to admit."--"Christian Science Monitor"

About the Author:

Eric Nylund ("The Warlords of Recess") is a New York Times bestselling and World Fantasy Award-nominated author of fourteen published science fiction, fantasy, and YA novels. His latest is a science fiction series for young readers, The Resisters. Eric also works for Microsoft Studios, where he makes video games.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0380792923
• ISBN 13: 9780380792924
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 400