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The Web is alive! The new SF thriller from the author of FLASHFORWARD.
Robert J. Sawyer est l'un des auteurs de science-fiction les plus renommés et à succès du Canada, loué pour sa capacité à allier l'intimité humaine au cosmique grandiloquent. Sa prose concise, souvent comparée à celle d'Isaac Asimov, explore de profondes questions philosophiques à travers des récits inventifs. Sawyer utilise le genre pour se plonger dans les ramifications éthiques, sociales et légales de la technologie avancée et des réalités alternatives. Il préfère lui-même l'étiquette de « fiction philosophique », se concentrant sur des idées profondes plutôt que sur la prédiction de l'avenir.







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.
To test his theories of immortality and life after death, Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. The first has all knowledge of physical existence edited out, to simulate life after death. The second is without knowledge of aging or death, to simulate immortality. The third is unmodified, a control. Now they are free. One 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
An experiment into an elusive nuclear particle veers off course and for a few moments, the consciousness of the entire human race is thrown forward about twenty years, giving everyone a glimpse of their own future.
A superb near-future SF trilogy of an awakened Internet.