Manifold: time
The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world's governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter future. That man, Reid Malenfant, has a very different solution to the problems plaguing the planet: the exploration and colonization of space. Now Malenfant gambles the very existence of time on a single desperate throw of the dice. …
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- Full title :Manifold : time / Stephen Baxter.
Summary
The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world's governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter future. That man, Reid Malenfant, has a very different solution to the problems plaguing the planet: the exploration and colonization of space. Now Malenfant gambles the very existence of time on a single desperate throw of the dice. Battling national sabotage and international outcry, as apocalyptic riots sweep the globe, he builds a spacecraft and launches it into deep space. The odds are a trillion to one against him. Or are they?
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- Publication Date:2000.
- Edition:First mass market edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ballantine Publishing Group
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2000.
Notes
First mass market edition December 2000.
"A Del Rey book"--Title page and title page verso.
"Del Rey"--Title page.
"Del Rey science fiction"--Spine.
Sequel: Manifold: Space.
The Physical Object
- Description:474 pages ; : 18 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:034543076X, 9780345430762
- oclc:ocm58483260
- LC Classification:PR6052.A849
- Dewey Decimal:823/.914
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