World engines : destroyer
Baxter, Stephen2019
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In the mid-21st century, the Kernel, a strange object on a 500-year-orbit, is detected coming from high above the plane of the solar system. Could it be an alien artefact? In the middle of climate-change crises, there is no mood for space-exploration stunts - but Reid Malenfant, elderly, once a shuttle pilot and frustrated would-be asteroid miner, decides to go take a look anyway. Nothing more is heard of him. But his ex-wife, Emma Stoney, sets up a trust fund to search for him the next time the Kernel returns. By 2570 Earth is transformed. A mere billion people are supported by advanced technology on a world that is almost indistinguishable from the natural, with recovered forests, oceans, ice caps. It is not an age for expansion; there are only small science bases beyond the Earth. But this is a world you would want to live in: a Star Trek without the stars.
Main title:
World engines : destroyer / Stephen Baxter.
Author:
Baxter, Stephen, author
Imprint:
London : Gollancz, 2019.
Collation:
564 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781473223172 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
87079