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Firefall
Peter Watts
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Description for Firefall
paperback. After an unexplained moment of surveillance by an alien intelligence no further contact has been made for twenty-five years. But all this is about to change. For a man hiding in the Oregon desert is about to play a key role in the next stage of human evolution. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Firefall is the omnibus edition of the novels Blindsight and Echopraxia. February 13, 2082, First Contact. Sixty-two thousand objects of unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere - a perfect grid of falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn. Not even ashes reach the ground. Three hundred and sixty degrees of global surveillance: something just took a snapshot. And then... nothing. But from deep space, whispers. Something out there talks - but not to us. Two ships, Theseus and the Crown of Thorns, are launched to ... Read more
Firefall is the omnibus edition of the novels Blindsight and Echopraxia. February 13, 2082, First Contact. Sixty-two thousand objects of unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere - a perfect grid of falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn. Not even ashes reach the ground. Three hundred and sixty degrees of global surveillance: something just took a snapshot. And then... nothing. But from deep space, whispers. Something out there talks - but not to us. Two ships, Theseus and the Crown of Thorns, are launched to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Head of Zeus Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
768
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786696106
SKU
V9781786696106
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99-50
About Peter Watts
Peter Watts is a science fiction writer and a reformed marine-mammal biologist. He is the author of the Rifters trilogy, a winner of the Aurora, Hugo and Shirley Jackson awards and a Locus, Sturgeon and Campbell award nominee. Watts lives in Toronto. Visit www.rifters.com
Reviews for Firefall
'Brilliant and merciless' SFX. 'If you read one SF novel this year, read this one' Richard Morgan. 'State of the art. Smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one' Neal Ascher. 'Exhilarating, up-to-date science fiction' New York Times. 'Remarkable' Gene Wolfe. 'A tour de force' Charles Stross.