**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.**
Noumenon
โ Scribed by Lostetter, Marina J
- Book ID
- 109810185
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 891 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062497857
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โฆ Synopsis
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...
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