"Recommended for fans of Richard K. Morgan's _Altered Carbon_ and Martha Wells' Murderbot series." β _Booklist_ "A superb, smart debut!" βLissa Price, bestselling author of the Starters series **In this riveting debut science-fiction technothriller, a top-notch VR pilot encounters a disaster
Nucleation
β Scribed by Unger, Kimberly
- Publisher
- Tachyon Publications
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- San Francisco
- ISBN
- 1616963395
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β¦ Synopsis
"Recommended for fans of Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon and Martha Wells' Murderbot series."
β Booklist
"A superb, smart debut!"
βLissa Price, bestselling author of the Starters series
In this riveting debut science-fiction technothriller, a top-notch VR pilot encounters a disaster during the highest profile space-faring project of her career. Now she must unearth a critical truth: was her discovery due to a betrayal, a business rival, or a threat to humanity itself?
We are live, we are live, we are live. . .
Helen Vectorvich just botched first contact. And she did it in both virtual reality and outer space.
Only the most elite Far Reaches deep-space pilots get to run waldos: robots controlled from thousands of lightyears away via neural integration and quantum entanglement. Helen and her navigator were heading the construction of a wormhole gate that would connect Earth to the stars . . . until a routine system check turned...
β¦ Subjects
Virtual reality -- Fiction
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