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Distress
Greg Egan
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Description for Distress
paperback. 'One of the genre's great ideas men' Times Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 356.
On the utopian, man-made island, Stateless, Nobel Prize winner Violet Mosala is close to solving the greatest problem of her career - the quest for the ultimate Theory of Everything (TOE) is almost over.
Burned out by recording the abuses of biotech for his TV news syndicate, Andrew Worth grabs the chance to follow Violet's story. In contrast the world of theoretical physics seems like an anaesthetised mathematical heaven, where everything is cool and abstract.
He could not have been more wrong. One by one Mosala's rival quantum physicists are disappearing from the scientific summit at Stateless. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Gollancz
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780575081734
SKU
V9780575081734
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About Greg Egan
Greg Egan lives in Perth, Western Australia. He has won the John W. Campbell award for Best Novel and has been short listed for the Hugo three times.
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