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Beschreibung
For fans of THE MARTIAN, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein.
Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly wit, and razor-sharp dialogue. Now, in collaboration with Ctein, he proves it all once more, in a stunning new thriller, a story as audacious as it is deeply satisfying.
The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope—something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don’t decelerate. Spaceships do.
A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage so large, no other nation can compete. A conclusion the Chinese definitely agree with when they find out.
The race is on, and an remarkable adventure begins—an epic tale of courage, treachery, resourcefulness, secrets, surprises, and astonishing human and technological discovery, as the members of a hastily thrown-together crew find their strength and wits tested against adversaries both of this earth and beyond. What happens is nothing like you expect—and everything you could want from one of the world’s greatest masters of suspense.
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The tech is cool and it seems like a lot of effort went into the design and feasability study of the tech needed to get two ships, from the USA and China, to Saturn on a ridiculously short schedule. I liked how the details of the ships and the journey were presented, the Saturn reveal was alright too. But in a book that's as much about geopolitics as this, I really don't understand why the second half of the book went as it did. The authors show that they're clearly aware of the geopolitical implications in the last 50 pages and they try to present a solution. But it's all so rushed that it really falls flat. For me, the book would've been more realisitc and gripping if that aspect had been more prominent. The first half was about the race there, the second could have been about the characters trying to actively work on a solution to getting the goods back without being nuked by everyone but the USA. Epilogue spoiler Also, does the book qualify as dystopian? The plan to get the tech seems to have worked out. If it wasn't shared globally, we'd probably be in a dystopia because realistic consequences might span from nuclear war to total US hegemony over the entire world. Which would both qualify
Beschreibung
For fans of THE MARTIAN, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein.
Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly wit, and razor-sharp dialogue. Now, in collaboration with Ctein, he proves it all once more, in a stunning new thriller, a story as audacious as it is deeply satisfying.
The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope—something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don’t decelerate. Spaceships do.
A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage so large, no other nation can compete. A conclusion the Chinese definitely agree with when they find out.
The race is on, and an remarkable adventure begins—an epic tale of courage, treachery, resourcefulness, secrets, surprises, and astonishing human and technological discovery, as the members of a hastily thrown-together crew find their strength and wits tested against adversaries both of this earth and beyond. What happens is nothing like you expect—and everything you could want from one of the world’s greatest masters of suspense.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
The tech is cool and it seems like a lot of effort went into the design and feasability study of the tech needed to get two ships, from the USA and China, to Saturn on a ridiculously short schedule. I liked how the details of the ships and the journey were presented, the Saturn reveal was alright too. But in a book that's as much about geopolitics as this, I really don't understand why the second half of the book went as it did. The authors show that they're clearly aware of the geopolitical implications in the last 50 pages and they try to present a solution. But it's all so rushed that it really falls flat. For me, the book would've been more realisitc and gripping if that aspect had been more prominent. The first half was about the race there, the second could have been about the characters trying to actively work on a solution to getting the goods back without being nuked by everyone but the USA. Epilogue spoiler Also, does the book qualify as dystopian? The plan to get the tech seems to have worked out. If it wasn't shared globally, we'd probably be in a dystopia because realistic consequences might span from nuclear war to total US hegemony over the entire world. Which would both qualify