World Engines: Destroyer A Post Climate Change High Concept Science Fiction Odyssey

Binding: Paperback
Description: In the year 2570, a sleeper will wake In the mid - 21st century the Kernel a strange object on a five - hundred - 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. After 500 years the Kernel returns and a descendant of Stoney who Malenfant will call Emma II mounts a mission to see what became of Malenfant. She finds him still alive cryo - preserved His culture - shock encounter with a conservative future is entertaining But the Kernel itself turns out to be attached to a kind of wormhole through which Malenfant and Emma II exploring further plummet back in time across five billion years
Title: World Engines: Destroyer A Post Climate Change High Concept Science Fiction Odyssey
Author(s): Baxter Stephen
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Barcode: 9781473223196
Pages: 576 Pages
Publication Date: 5/28/2020
Category: Science Fiction