Learning The World
Language: English
Published by Time Warner Book Group / Orbit, 2005
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Condition: Used
£ 35.00
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© 2005: A stand-alone novel by Ken MacLeod. 1st edition, 1st printing. Previous owner's name to front end-paper:- Synopsis: The Fermi Paradox: If there are billions of planets in the universe that are capable of supporting life, and millions of intelligent species out there, then why haven't we encountered any? The great sunliner 'But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky!' is nearing the end of a four-hundred-year journey. A ship-born generation is tense with expectation for the new system that is to be their home. Expecting to find nothing more complex than bacteria and algae, the detection of electronic signals from one of the planets comes as a shock. In millennia of slow expansion, humanity has never encountered aliens, and yet these new signals cannot be ignored. They suspect a fast robot probe has overtaken them, and send probes of their own to investigate. On a world called Ground, whose inhabitants are struggling into the age of radio, petroleum and powered flight, a young astronomer searching for distant planets detects an anomaly that he presumes must be a comet. His friend, a brilliant foreign physicist, calculates the orbit, only to discover an anomaly of his own. The comet is slowing down. Reminding us that the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine, 'Learning The World' is Ken MacLeod's stunning new novel of exploration, discovery and Mankind's destiny amongst the stars:- Review(s): Praise for Ken MacLeod: "The modern-day George Orwell" - SFX / "Stunningly assured, inventive and intelligent" - Iain M Banks / "A hectic ride, through slaloms of audacious complexity, irreverent ingenuity and paradox as purposeful as it is playful" - Guardian / "Magnificent" - Starburst / "The wit and thrust are like a needle shower" - Mail On Sunday / "Intelligent, witty and politically challenging" - New Scientist / "MacLeod simply gets better and better. SF writing doesn't come more accomplished than this" - Starlog:- (original cost £17.99).…
Seller Inventory # 21.126.00002
- Title
- Learning The World
- Author
- MacLeod, Ken
- Publisher
- Time Warner Book Group / Orbit
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Near Fine: Small signs of wear
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardback: 9½" x 6¼"
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1841493430
- ISBN 13
- 9781841493435
- Illustrator
- Cover Art: Lee Gibbons
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 0.6 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 9½" (241mm) x 6¼" (158mm).
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- Science Fiction
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