Noumenon ultra, Lostetter, Marina J.

Автор: Lostetter, Marina J.
Название: Noumenon
ISBN: 0062497847 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062497840
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 11140.00 T
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A Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 pick

A Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2017 pick

A B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasty Blog Best SFF of 2017 pick

With nods to Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series and the real science of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, a touch of Hugh Howey's Wool, and echoes of Octavia Butler's voice, a powerful tale of space travel, adventure, discovery, and humanity that unfolds through a series of generational vignettes.

In 2088, humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth's solar system. But one uncertainty remains: Where do we go?

Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has an idea. He's discovered an anomalous star that appears to defy the laws of physics, and proposes the creation of a deep-space mission to find out whether the star is a weird natural phenomenon, or something manufactured.

The journey will take eons. In order to maintain the genetic talent of the original crew, humankind's greatest ambition--to explore the furthest reaches of the galaxy-- is undertaken by clones. But a clone is not a perfect copy, and each new generation has its own quirks, desires, and neuroses. As the centuries fly by, the society living aboard the nine ships (designated Convoy Seven) changes and evolves, but their mission remains the same: to reach Reggie's mysterious star and explore its origins--and implications.

A mosaic novel of discovery, Noumenon--in a series of vignettes--examines the dedication, adventure, growth, and fear of having your entire world consist of nine ships in the vacuum of space. The men and women, and even the AI, must learn to work and live together in harmony, as their original DNA is continuously replicated and they are born again and again into a thousand new lives. With the stars their home and the unknown their destination, they are on a voyage of many lifetimes--an odyssey to understand what lies beyond the limits of human knowledge and imagination.

Автор: Swanwick Michael, Zinos-Amaro Alvaro, Lostetter Marina J.
Название: Galaxy`s Edge Magazine: Issue 46 September 2020
ISBN: 1649730675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781649730671
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy

ISSUE 46: September 2020

Lezli Robyn, Editor
Martin Shoemaker, Assistant Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher

Stories by: Errick A. Nunnally, Mike Resnick, K. A. Teryna (translation by Alex Shvartsman), Nancy Kress, Edward M. Lerner, Michael Swanwick, Marina J. Lostetter, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Serialization: Midnight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker

Columns by: Gregory Benford, L. Penelope

Recommended Books: Richard Chwedyk

Interview: Lezli Robyn interviews Walter Jon Williams

Galaxy's Edge is a bi-monthly magazine published by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor, an award winning independent press based in Maryland. Each issue of the magazine has a mix of new and old stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by L. Penelope and Gregory Benford, book recommendations by Richard Chwydyk and an interview conducted by Joy Ward.

Автор: Lostetter Marina J.
Название: Noumenon Ultra
ISBN: 0062895729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062895721
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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"Lostetter remains at the forefront of innovation in hard science fiction."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The mind-expanding journey that began with Noumenon and Noumenon Infinity continues in this wondrous mosaic tale of deep space exploration, adventure, and humanity that blends the awe, science, and speculative imagination of Arthur C. Clarke, Neal Stephenson, and Octavia Butler.

Deep in the heart of an alien mountain range, I.C.C. has lain dormant, its ships silent, for eons. Now, after one hundred thousand years, the AI is awakening. Someone is roaming the convoy's halls--someone that isn't human.

This planet, Noumenon--created by the megastructure known as the Web--is too young and brutal to have evolved intelligent life. Its surface is bombarded by unusual meteors. Crystal trees abruptly and violently arise from its bedrock. Its solar system is surrounded by a frightening space-time anomaly. So where did these visitors come from? What do they want? And do the people of Earth, whose ancestors launched Convoy Seven, know they are here?

I.C.C. reaches out to the descendants of its convoy crew to help decipher this primordial riddle. Noumenon was created and seeded by ancient aliens, and clearly their plans for it are unfinished. Together, the AI, the new lifeforms who have awakened it, and the humans will embark on an epic adventure of discovery billions of years in the making.

Автор: Lostetter Marina J.
Название: Noumenon Infinity
ISBN: 0062497863 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062497864
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 14950.00 T
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Travel to the remotest reaches of deep space in this wondrous follow-up to the acclaimed Noumenon--a tale of exploration, adventure, science, and humanity with the sweep and intelligence of the works of Arthur C. Clarke, Neal Stephenson, and Octavia Butler.

Generations ago, Convoy Seven and I.C.C. left Earth on a mission that would take them far beyond the solar system. Launched by the Planet United Consortium, a global group formed to pursue cooperative Earth-wide interests in deep space, nine ships headed into the unknown to explore a distant star called LQ Pyx.

Eons later, the convoy has returned to LQ Pyx to begin work on the Web, the alien megastructure that covers the star. Is it a Dyson Sphere, designed to power a civilization as everyone believes--or something far more sinister?

Meanwhile, Planet United's littlest convoy, long thought to be lost, reemerges in a different sector of deep space. What they discover holds the answers to unlocking the Web's greater purpose.

Each convoy possesses a piece of the Web's puzzle . . . but they may not be able to bring those pieces together and uncover the structure's true nature before it's too late.