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Goonan, Kathleen Ann The Bones of Time ISBN 13: 9780812557466

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A young Hawaiian mathematician discovers the secrets of time travel and alternative universes in the preserved bones of the great Hawaiian king, Kamehameha. By the author of Queen City Jazz. Reprint.

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Early next century, the Interspace company, in charge of humanity's first generation starship, has been given extraordinary powers. Cen, descendant of Hawaiian shaman-priests, and a mathematical genius, finds out as an adolescent how ruthless they are in their preparedness to exploit human weakness and brilliance, yet sells his work to them for the leisure to pursue his own plans--the conquest of time and the saving of the long dead princess whom he meets and loves in moments of vision. A decade later, Lynn, geneticist renegade from Interspace's ruling dynasty, rescues from assassination Akamu, clone of Hawaii's legendary unifier, and finds herself, like Cen before her, manipulated by Interspace's Hawaiian nationalist foes. She and Akamu are pursued from Hawaii to Hong-Kong and into the uplands of Tibet. Bristling with intrigue and ideas about Buddhism, wormholes, celestial navigation and quantum theories of intelligence, Goonan's new novel is touching about love and families and a gruelling switchback ride for the intellect. Her first novel Queen City Jazz was impressive in its dreamy portrayal of a world altered by nano-technology; this radical change of place remakes the near future techno-thriller as a set of passionately conceived ethical quandaries. --Roz Kaveney
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‘A dizzying novel that takes full advantage of the creative potential of nanotech’
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‘Spectacular A novel of startling virtuosity and complexity’
Locus

‘An unforgettable vision of America transfigured’
William Gibson

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  • PublisherSt Martin's Press
  • Publication date1920
  • ISBN 10 0812557468
  • ISBN 13 9780812557466
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages480
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