Frank Schätzing's *The Swarm* was an international science-fiction blockbuster, winner of the Köln Literatur Prize, the Corine Prize, and the German Science Fiction Prize. *Limit* is his most ambitious work to-date--a multilayered thriller that balances astonishing scientific, historical, and techni
Limit
✍ Scribed by Frank Schatzing
- Publisher
- Quercus;Jo Fletcher
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 801 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1623650453
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Frank Schätzing's The Swarm was an international science-fiction blockbuster, winner of the Köln Literatur Prize, the Corine Prize, and the German Science Fiction Prize. Limit is his most ambitious work to-date--a multilayered thriller that balances astonishing scientific, historical, and technical detail. Against this backdrop, Schätzing convincingly realizes a possible near future when humankind's ingenuity may become the greatest risk to its continued existence.
In 2025, entrepreneur Julian Orley opens the first-ever hotel on the moon. But Orley Enterprises deals in more than space tourism--it also operates the world's only space elevator, which in addition to allowing the very wealthy to play tennis on the lunar surface connects Earth with the moon and enables the transportation of helium-3, the fuel of the future, back to the planet. Julian has invited twenty-one of the world's richest and most powerful individuals to sample his...
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
2025-ben járunk. Technológiai újítások forradalmasították az űrrepülést. Amerikaiak és kínaiak küzdenek a holdporban található hélium-3-ért, mely a következő évezredben környezetbarát módon láthatná el energiával az emberiséget. Országnyi méretű konszernek irányítják a politikát, harcban állva az en
In THE LIMIT, Michael Cannell tells the enthralling story of Phil Hill-a lowly California mechanic who would become the first American-born driver to win the Grand Prix-and, on the fiftieth anniversary of his triumph, brings to life a vanished world of glamour, valor, and daring. With the pacing and
SUMMARY: An eighth grade girl was taken today . . .With this first sentence, readers are immediately thrust into a fast-paced thriller that doesn't let up for a moment. In a world not too far removed from our own, kids are being taken away to special workhouses if their families exceed the monthly
SUMMARY: An eighth grade girl was taken today . . .With this first sentence, readers are immediately thrust into a fast-paced thriller that doesn't let up for a moment. In a world not too far removed from our own, kids are being taken away to special workhouses if their families exceed the monthly