Moonseed
Baxter, Stephen
From The Book Exchange, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since December 12, 2003
Quantity: 1From The Book Exchange, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since December 12, 2003
Quantity: 1About this Item
0002254263. Hardcover in a good d/w, light shelf wear. 523 pages. 1st Edition. 1st Printing, not price clipped. An awesome secret is hidden in moon bedrock, stored by NASA. Contents, clean, tight and bright. Seller Inventory # 022769
Bibliographic Details
Title: Moonseed
Publisher: Harper Collins, UK
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Book Type: Book
About this title
A world-class disaster epic worthy of any Saturday matinee, Moonseed opens with the spectacular, explosive death of Venus, an event requiring energy a thousand billion times the world's nuclear arsenal. As the radioactive blast from the late Venus reaches Earth, scientists scramble to attribute a cause, with massless black holes and elementary particles the size of bacteria pointing towards some sort of superstring as the smoking gun. The pace quickens when the substance that may have caused the demise of Venus is accidentally introduced to Earth. This substance, dubbed moonseed, acts as a geological lubricant: processes that normally take millions of years occur in mere months with moonseed in the picture. Once Scotland and the state of Washington get gobbled up by this rock-eating, 10th-dimensional nano-lifeform, all hell breaks loose and the search turns towards finding safe refuge for humanity on the Moon. The book's second half is a seat-of-your-pants, what-if exploration of space travel and terraforming.
An over-the-top doomsday yarn by some measures, Moonseed keeps your feet on the ground with good science, good characters, and a good story. --Paul Hughes
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