Richter 10 (Bantam Spectra Book) - Hardcover

Clarke, Arthur C.; McQuay, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553097083 ISBN 13: 9780553097085

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1996

Synopsis

The only surviving member of his family after the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake, young Lewis Crane devotes his life to seismology and is terrified when he predicts "the big one." 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo.

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as an RAF radar instructor, rising to the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. After the war he won a BSc in physics and mathematics with first class honours from King's College, London. One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he also won the KALINGA PRIZE, the AVIATION SPACE-WRITERS PRIZE,and the WESTINGHOUSE SCIENCE WRITING PRIZE. He also shared an OSCAR nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, which was based on his story, 'The Sentinel'. He lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008. To discover more about how the legacy of Sir Arthur is being honoured today, please visit http://www.clarkefoundation.org

From the Inside Flap:

;i>New York Times bestselling author of Rama Revealed comes a thrilling new collaborative novel of the race to avert a massive earthquake: the apocalyptic "big one" that threatens to send California sliding off into the Pacific Ocean.

Arthur C.  Clarke is the greatest living writer of science fiction, the mind that produced a string of blockbuster New York Times bestsellers:
2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequels, as well as Rama II, The Garden of Rama and Rama Rescaled.  Now, he turns his remarkable imaginative powers to a near-future novel of the struggle to avoid catastrophe in the form of a colossal earthquake more destructive than any in human history.  Written with Mike McQuay, this is a thrilling novel of man's will to survive against unstoppable forces of nature.

Lewis Crane lived through the devastating Los Angeles earthquake of 1994.  He sur

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0553097083
• ISBN 13: 9780553097085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 373