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Seeking the Mythical Future
Christian Queghan is a myth technologist and a highly respected scientist on the planet known as Earth IVn. Like so many other worlds colonised generations ago, Earth IVn was created to be as much like Old Earth as possible, altho Old Earth itself is now the stuff of legend.
A machine's been developed that will project a researcher into one of an infinite number of possible futures of Earth IVn, with only a 50% chance of return. Queghan is an ideal subject. He cannot resist the idea of going where none have gone before.
Sailing across the oceans of Earth IVn, the crew of the ship Slave Trader encounters a mysterious castaway, whose translucent skin is branded with a Q.
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A machine's been developed that will project a researcher into one of an infinite number of possible futures of Earth IVn, with only a 50% chance of return. Queghan is an ideal subject. He cannot resist the idea of going where none have gone before.
Sailing across the oceans of Earth IVn, the crew of the ship Slave Trader encounters a mysterious castaway, whose translucent skin is branded with a Q.
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Published March 1, 1982
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August 19, 2022
Rape as a recurring plot device is a distraction from an otherwise interesting story.
October 12, 2013
I have to admit this was not one of my favorite books - however, I did want to finish it to know what happens... so it wasn't THAT bad :)
It is probably more a 3.5
It is a about myth, it is about science - lots of science - the kind that makes your head go ... "what???" ... but that is also the kind of science that I do enjoy reading... it is about different realities. What is reality - is it yours or mine that is true?
In the book, a machine, named Nellie, has been developed that can project a researcher into one of an infinite number of possible futures of Earth, however, there is only a 50% chance of bringing that person back again.
It begins with "a researcher" - we do not know which researcher - found floating in one of the possible futures of Earth... Earth IVn to be exact :)
It is probably more a 3.5
It is a about myth, it is about science - lots of science - the kind that makes your head go ... "what???" ... but that is also the kind of science that I do enjoy reading... it is about different realities. What is reality - is it yours or mine that is true?
In the book, a machine, named Nellie, has been developed that can project a researcher into one of an infinite number of possible futures of Earth, however, there is only a 50% chance of bringing that person back again.
It begins with "a researcher" - we do not know which researcher - found floating in one of the possible futures of Earth... Earth IVn to be exact :)
May 25, 2011
By 1982 I was back together with Linda after a separation of several years, together enough that we went down to Tampa/St. Pete, Florida for me to meet her paternal grandmother. It was scorching, the water was too salty and too warm to be refreshing. The only escape was the mall which, fortunately, had a used bookshop where I picked up this title.
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