Earth
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299006058 (1299006051)
Publish date: January 1st 2009
Publisher: Spectra Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
20th Century,
Environment,
Speculative Fiction,
Hard Science Fiction,
Cyberpunk,
Near Future
TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to ...
bookshelves: published-1990, sci-fi, environmental-issues, winter-20132014, tbr-busting-2014, fraudio, epic-proportions, dystopian, desert-regions, lifestyles-deathstyles Read from December 18, 2013 to January 11, 2014 Description: Set in the year 2038, the book is a cautionary tale of the harm h...
To be honest I wouldn't have finished this one if it wasn't a bookcrossingIE choice. I'm not sorry I read it but it was a bit too scientific for my real enjoyment and went down some avenues that I wouldn't have gone if I had a choice. In a near future the earth is wracked with ecological damange an...
I read this back in highschool, and so along with the other 2 Brin books, Earth Clan, I decided to re-read them all. Sadly, this was so filled with Brin's earth philosophy that the story was barely there. It was pretty cool overall, gravity lasers, etc. But Dear Lord, the proselytizing that we...
This is not an easy read in spite of the well written, accessible prose, some good characterization, and some exciting scenes. The difficulty is due to the ambitious scope of the book which seems to necessitate numerous plot strands, myriad characters, and frequent expositions and infodumps. Persona...
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