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The Web is alive! The new SF thriller from the author of FLASHFORWARD.
Robert J. Sawyer is een van Canada's meest prominente en succesvolle sciencefictionauteurs, geprezen om zijn vermogen om het intiem menselijke te verbinden met het groots kosmische. Zijn beknopte proza, vaak vergeleken met dat van Isaac Asimov, verkent diepgaande filosofische vragen door middel van inventieve vertellingen. Sawyer gebruikt het genre om zich te verdiepen in de ethische, sociale en juridische implicaties van geavanceerde technologie en alternatieve realiteiten. Hij omarmt zelf het label 'filosofische fictie', waarbij hij zich richt op diepe ideeën in plaats van de toekomst te voorspellen.







The Web is alive! The new SF thriller from the author of FLASHFORWARD.
What happens when the internet comes alive? An SF thriller of terrifying possibilities.
In a parallel world in which Neanderthals, rather than homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species, a dangerous scientific experiment traps a Neanderthal physicist on Earth.
Neanderthal physicist Ponder Boddit resumes his relationship with geneticist Mary Vaughn as cultural and scientific exchanges begin between the two parallel Earths--our own, and one in which Neanderthals became the dominant species.
Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. But they all have escaped from Hobson's computer into the web-and one of them is a killer.
Sono passati vent'anni dalla scoperta dei wormhole, misteriose anomalie del cosmo che permettono di viaggiare nello spazio e nel tempo, e l'esplorazione dell'universo ha raggiunto vette imprevedibili. Durante una missione il comandante Keith Lansing e la sua nave si imbattono in una stella più vecchia dell'universo stesso e in una razza sconosciuta che minaccia una guerra intergalattica. L'unico modo per salvare la Starplex e il suo mondo è entrare nel wormhole per tornare indietro di miliardi di anni e scoprire il segreto della misteriosa stella...
Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's discarded his doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form. The new Jake soon finds the love that eluded him when he was encased in flesh - he falls for the android version of Karen, a woman rediscovering the joys of life now that she too is no longer constrained by a worn-out body.
A science experiment goes wrong, giving everyone a glimpse of the future. One man learns a rival will steal his wife, another that he will win a lottery, a third that he will be murdered and has 20 years to find the killer. A look at the repercussions of knowing the future
FLASHFORWARDTwo minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the worldSuddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for more than two minutes. Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases, and cars plow into each other.But that’s the least of the survivors’ challenges. During the blackout, everyone experienced a glimpse of what his or her future holds—and the interlocking mosaic of these visions threatens to unravel the present.
A superb near-future SF trilogy of an awakened Internet.