Sunfall
«The Day After Tomorrow meets Neuromancer . . . When the planet's magnetic field fails, the naked sun threatens to deliver an extinction level event now – and every century – unless a high-tech near future humanity can save itself. Sunfall is sizzling stuff. And the best informed techno-thriller you are ever likely to read.»
STEPHEN BAXTER, author of the Xeelee sequence
Twenty-five years in the future, and our planet is facing a natural Armageddon that threatens all life on Earth - Professor Jim Al-Khalili combines rip-roaring storytelling and mind-expanding science in his debut thriller. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 448
- ISBN
- 9780857503527
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«The Day After Tomorrow meets Neuromancer . . . When the planet's magnetic field fails, the naked sun threatens to deliver an extinction level event now – and every century – unless a high-tech near future humanity can save itself. Sunfall is sizzling stuff. And the best informed techno-thriller you are ever likely to read.»
STEPHEN BAXTER, author of the Xeelee sequence
«With its well-crafted world-building, cutting-edge science, and believable, engaging characters caught in a desperate race to stave off the end of the world, this fast-paced near-future thriller is an impressive debut novel from one of our foremost science communicators. Brilliant! »
Professor IAN STEWART, co-author of The Science of Discworld series
«A thrilling futuristic page-turner of a novel in which the future of science, and the technology that underpins it, is as gripping as the plot.»
Professor MARK MIODOWNIK, author of Stuff Matters
«Excellent, exactly how good science fiction should be: gripping story, beautifully told, while at the same time being scientifically well-informed.»
PROFESSOR RICHARD DAWKINS
«Reminiscent of vintage Arthur C. Clarke . . . has a chilling, nail-biting authenticity.»
James Lovegrove, FINANCIAL TIMES