Existence / David Brin.
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TextPublication details: New York : Tor, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 556 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0765303612 (hbk.)
- 1429946962 (ebk.)
- 9780765303615 (hbk.)
- 9781429946964 (ebk.)
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Main Library | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Brin Dav | Available | 33111006742569 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence .
Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there's something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn't on the decades' old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth's infomesh about an "alien artifact."
Thrown into the maelstrom of worldwide shared experience, the Artifact is a game-changer. A message in a bottle; an alien capsule that wants to communicate. The world reacts as humans always do: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. And insatiable curiosity.
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Includes bibliographical references.
In a future world dominated by a neural-link web where people can tune into live events and revolutions can be instantly sparked, an active alien communication device is discovered in orbit around the Earth, triggering an international upheaval of fear, hope and violence.