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Half Life

โœ Scribed by Hal Clement


Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates;Tor Books
Year
2000
Tongue
en-US
Weight
145 KB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis


In about two hundred years, the human race on Earth is perhaps facing extinction due to the rapid evolution of disease. A crew of young men and women travel to the moons of Saturn, to Titan, to investigate the biochemistry of the pre-life conditions there in the slim hope of discovering something that might save Earth. The whole story runs at high-speed, as they race to find answers across the surface of an alien landscape with death close behind . . . and gaining.

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