Bloom - Brossura

McCarthy, Wil

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0345424654 ISBN 13: 9780345424655

Casa editrice: Del Rey, 1999

Riassunto

A plague of self-replicating organisms, the product of twenty-first-century bioengineering, spreads across the globe and forces humanity to flee to the asteroid belt, where a crew of desperadoes is chosen for a suicidal mission

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Recensione

"[A] rousing yet thoughtful adventure story."
--The New York Times Book Review

"[A] VIEW OF MANKIND'S FUTURE AND THE UNIVERSE REMINISCENT OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE."
--The Denver Post

"BLOOM is one of the most fast-paced and powerfully dark visions of nanotechnology gone awry since Greg Bear's Blood Music. McCarthy succeeds on many levels, combining a unique literary style with complex scientific speculation and political intrigue."
--Locus

"What clever and compelling science fiction! The Bloom future is all too believable."
--JAMES GLEICK
   Author of Chaos: Making a New Science

"Wil McCarthy makes ideas jump. Bloom grabs you from the very first scene and doesn't let go till the last page. It's irresistible."
--WALTER JON WILLIAMS
    Author of City on Fire

"Swiftly paced, consistently inventive and tightly written."
--The Washington Post Book World

"McCarthy is an entertaining, intelligent, amusing writer, with Heinlein's knack for breakneck plotting and, at the same time, Clarke's thoughtfulness."
--Booklist (starred review)

"Bloom is tense, dynamic, intelligent, offering a terrifyingly vivid view of how technology can rocket out of our control."
--DAVID BRIN
   Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Startide Rising

L'autore

In eleven years as an aerospace engineer, Wil McCarthy has worked with rockets, satellites, lasers, computers, interplanetary probes, and, most recently, robots. He lives outside Denver with his family, and in his copious free time he writes science fiction, including stories published in Aboriginal SF, Analog, Interzone, Asimov's, Science Fiction Age, and a veritable plethora of short fiction anthologies. Bloom is his fifth novel.

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• Editore: Del Rey
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0345424654
• ISBN 13: 9780345424655
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 303