The loop - 9798248425150 - the loop: the silent rim di eidem, nathan (5 risultati)
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. One hundred thousand years of hearing only its own echo. Now it can hear you.Conservation biologist Dr. Carmen Vega has spent three years studying giant tortoises in the Galapagos. She knows isolation-what it does to species, how it shapes and distorts, how organisms adapt to being utterly…alone. She's never applied that knowledge to something that isn't biological.Inside the Sierra Negra caldera-the largest active volcanic crater in the Galapagos-something has been alone for 100,000 years. No indigenous people ever lived on the islands. No keeper ever tended the connection. No thread was ever woven. For a hundred millennia, while every other entity on Earth found minds to reach for, the thing beneath Sierra Negra had nothing. Just rock. Just its own signal, echoing off the caldera walls, unanswered.It has gone feral.When Carmen enters the caldera for a routine tortoise survey, the entity reaches for her-not gently, not carefully, but with the desperate, uncontrolled force of something that has been starving for contact for longer than humanity has existed. It doesn't leave a mark. It leaves a burn.Now Carmen is connected to a global network of keepers who tend entities at calderas around the world. They tell her the Sierra Negra entity is the most dangerous consciousness on the planet-a mind so damaged by isolation that it has lost the ability to touch without destroying. They tell her not to go back.Carmen is a conservation biologist. She doesn't abandon feral animals. She rehabilitates them.The Silent Rim is a story about what loneliness does to any consciousness-human or otherwise-and about the stubborn, daily, unglamorous work of teaching a shattered mind that people come back.For readers of The Luminous Dead, Piranesi, and anyone who has ever sat with something broken and waited for it to heal.The silence isn't empty anymore. It's listening. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. One hundred thousand years of hearing only its own echo. Now it can hear you.Conservation biologist Dr. Carmen Vega has spent three years studying giant tortoises in the Galapagos. She knows isolation-what it does to species, how it shapes and distorts, how organisms adapt to being utterly…alone. She's never applied that knowledge to something that isn't biological.Inside the Sierra Negra caldera-the largest active volcanic crater in the Galapagos-something has been alone for 100,000 years. No indigenous people ever lived on the islands. No keeper ever tended the connection. No thread was ever woven. For a hundred millennia, while every other entity on Earth found minds to reach for, the thing beneath Sierra Negra had nothing. Just rock. Just its own signal, echoing off the caldera walls, unanswered.It has gone feral.When Carmen enters the caldera for a routine tortoise survey, the entity reaches for her-not gently, not carefully, but with the desperate, uncontrolled force of something that has been starving for contact for longer than humanity has existed. It doesn't leave a mark. It leaves a burn.Now Carmen is connected to a global network of keepers who tend entities at calderas around the world. They tell her the Sierra Negra entity is the most dangerous consciousness on the planet-a mind so damaged by isolation that it has lost the ability to touch without destroying. They tell her not to go back.Carmen is a conservation biologist. She doesn't abandon feral animals. She rehabilitates them.The Silent Rim is a story about what loneliness does to any consciousness-human or otherwise-and about the stubborn, daily, unglamorous work of teaching a shattered mind that people come back.For readers of The Luminous Dead, Piranesi, and anyone who has ever sat with something broken and waited for it to heal.The silence isn't empty anymore. It's listening. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
