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A novel with one foot in the future - the latest science fiction thriller from the four-time Hugo Award winner
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Vernor Vinge is the author of True Names, The Peace War, Marooned in Realtime, A Fire Upon the Deep, and A Deepness in the Sky. A mathematician and computer scientist, he lives in San Diego, California.
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- EditoreTor
- Data di pubblicazione2007
- ISBN 10 0330451944
- ISBN 13 9780330451949
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine400
- Valutazione libreria
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Rainbows End
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Pan Macmillan / Tor
(2007)
ISBN 10: 0330451944
ISBN 13: 9780330451949
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Paperback: 7" x 4½"
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Descrizione libro Paperback: 7" x 4½". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Stephan Martiniere (illustratore). 2007 Edition. © 2006:- A stand-alone novel by Vernor Vinge. 1st printing of 2007 edition:- Synopsis: The mysterious stranger and Mr Rabbit. World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored, reality's a shock. Books are just about gone. Computers are old news, replaced by 'smart' contact lenses that connect him to the Internet via his clothes and wireless nodes just about everywhere. Buildings look low-rent - unless your wearing. Then they look like whatever you want. Even he is different. He's seventy-five, but his treatment has made him look almost like a teenager. And that's just the tip of the iceberg in the new Digital Age. As Gu tries to catch up with his future, a mysterious stranger draws him and other innocents into a conspiracy that could have disastrous consequences. Before he knows it, he's in so deep that even his high-ranking military son and daughter-in-law are clueless. His only hope - the world's only hope - is that his thirteen-year-old- granddaughter Miri and her secret friend, Mr Rabbit, might be able to keep the worst from happening:- Review(s): "In the grand tradition of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Vernor Vinge just turned the future upside-down in 'Rainbows End' a deceptively charming return to the high school novel of yore, replete with bullying, family troubles. And grand terrorism" - Charles Stross, author of Accelerando / "A feverishly entertaining next-gen tech thriller" - SFreviews_com:- (original cost £6.99). Codice articolo 17.006.00017
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