Cavalcade - Rilegato

Sinclair, Alison

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 185798532X ISBN 13: 9781857985320

Casa editrice: Gollancz, 1998

Riassunto

Having taken up the aliens' invitation to travel to a better world, the assembled humans find themselves in an enormous cathedral like edifice, their electronic clocks stopped at midnight - the moment they were picked up from the beaches - and with two hours or more missing. None of their advanced technology works - anything like a silicon based microchip is broken down to dust. Two groups form - one made up of a US army reconnaissence team , one a women's group in search of self determination. They try and organise life aboard the alien ship, since there are no actual aliens in evidence and the humans appear to have been left completely to their own devices. But after a time it seems that it is not that there are no aliens, but that the ship itself is an alien life form - and one that recruits its own crew from amongst the volunteers who come aboard. Some will fail, some will be rejected and some will survive. Only one woman seems to believe that communication with the aliens is possible, that communication is in fact the only way to survive and perhaps return to earth.

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Descrizione del libro

The aliens have landed and sent out an invitation to the people of the world - a one-way ticket to a better life - first rate sf from a young British author

L'autore

Alison Sinclair is now studying medicine at the University of Calgary - previously she worked as a lecturer and researcher at Leeds University specialising in neuro-biology.

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• Editore: Gollancz
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 185798532X
• ISBN 13: 9781857985320
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320