The Descent of Anansi

Niven, Larry & Barnes, Steven

ISBN 10: 0708881025 / ISBN 13: 9780708881026

Editore: Orbit, UK, 1987

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Tanned pages, some wear to cover edges, slight spine lean. Codice articolo 5000

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Titolo: The Descent of Anansi

Casa editrice: Orbit, UK

Data di pubblicazione: 1987

Legatura: Paperback

Illustratore: Peter Andrew Jones

Condizione: Very Good

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SCIENCE FICTION-CRISIS ON THE MOON.THE COLONY IS AT A CROSSROADS.DOES IT GO FOR INDEPENDENCE NOW?OR DOES IT GIVE IN TO THE PRESSURES FROM EARTH AND HAND IT'S FUTURE TO THE LARGEST COMMERCIAL BIDDER,HOWEVER CYNICAL IT'S METHODS AND MOTIVES?THE KEY WAS THE ANANSI,A WORKADAY SPACE SHUTTLE,BUT WITH A MISSION-TO DELIVER A MONOFILAMENT CABLE TO A WAITING EARTHSIDE COMPANY.TOO MANY INTERESTS WANTED A SLICE OF THE CABLE-AND OF THE ANANSI AND ULTIMATELY THE MOON.BUT IN SPACE,EVEN A CABLE AN ATOM THICK CAN BE A POTENT WEAPON.AND NOT EVERY MOON COLONIST WAS BOUND TO EARTH AND THE OLD WAYS.

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Larry Niven has won the prestigious Hugo Award five times. He is known to millions as the premier modern author of rigorous, scientifically consistent hard SF, the champion of 'SF without a net'.