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Item Details
Title:
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HILLDIGGERS
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By: |
Neal Asher |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£17.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1405055006 |
ISBN 13: |
9781405055000 |
Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
6 July, 2007 |
Series: |
Novel of the Polity |
Pages: |
496 |
Description: |
During a war between two planets in the same solar system - each occupied by adapted humans - what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. There a female research scientist subsequently falls pregnant, and gives birth to quads. Then she commits suicide - but why? |
Synopsis: |
During a war between two planets in the same solar system - each occupied by adapted humans - what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology or some kind of life. They are placed for safety in three ozark cylinders of a massively secure space station. There a female research scientist subsequently falls pregnant, and gives birth to quads. Then she commits suicide - but why? By the end of the war one of the contesting planets has been devastated by the hilldiggers - giant space dreadnoughts employing weapons capable of creating mountain ranges. The quads have meanwhile grown up and are assuming positions of power in the post-war society. One of them will eventually gain control of the awesome hilldiggers ... |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Tor |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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