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Half Life

Name: Half Life
Price: 1.99 EUR
Author: Hal Clement
ISBN: 9780575110281

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Hal Clement

Gateway
Paru le : 19/05/2013

About two centuries from now, the human race on Earth is in trouble, perhaps even facing extinction, because of the rapid evolution of diseases. A crew... > Lire la suite

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About two centuries from now, the human race on Earth is in trouble, perhaps even facing extinction, because of the rapid evolution of diseases. A crew of young men and women travel to the moons of Saturn, to Titan, to investigate the biochemistry of the pre-life conditions there in the slim hope of discovering something that might save Earth. Nearly half of the crew die on the way. They have to do most of their exploration in virtual-reality machinery.
The whole story runs at high speed, as they race to find answers across the surface of an alien landscape with death close behind, and gaining.

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Date de parution : 19/05/2013
Editeur : Gateway
ISBN : 978-0-575-11028-1
EAN : 9780575110281
Format : ePub

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Biographie de Hal Clement

Hal Clement (1922 - 2003) Hal Clement is the nom de plume under which Harry Clement Stubbs wrote science fiction. Born in Massachusetts in 1922, he graduated from Harvard with a BSc. in astronomy, and later added degrees in chemistry and education. A former B-24 pilot who saw active service during the Second World War, he worked for most of his life as a high-school science teacher. He made his reputation as an SF writer with the work that appeared in Astounding, where his best-known novel, Mission of Gravity, first appeared in serialised form in 1953.