Livre broché, 420 pages

Langue : English

Publié 3 janvier 2017 par Harper Voyager.

ISBN :
978-0-06-249784-0
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Numéro OCLC :
972278426
Goodreads:
32600718

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3 étoiles (2 critiques)

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 …

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Sujets

  • Interstellar travel
  • Fiction
  • Human cloning
  • Human evolution
  • Science fiction