Existence bookcover

Existence

David Brin 

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Description

Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence.

Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there's something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn't on the decades' old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth's infomesh about an "alien artifact."

Thrown into the maelstrom of worldwide shared experience, the Artifact is a game-changer. A message in a bottle; an alien capsule that wants to communicate. The world reacts as humans always do: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. And insatiable curiosity.

This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback.

Product Details

PublisherTor Science Fiction
Publish DateFebruary 26, 2013
Pages896
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780765342621
Dimensions7.5 X 108.5 X 37.2 mm | 1.0 pounds
BISAC Categories: Science Fiction

About the Author

David Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant and world-known author. His books include The Uplift Saga, Kiln People, and Existence, and his novels have been New York Times bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula, and other awards. Brin lives near San Diego, California, with his wife and their three children.

Reviews

“Take a world soaked in near-future strangeness and complexity... Add a beautiful alien artifact that turns out to be the spearpoint of a very dangerous, very ancient invasion... Hotwire with wisdom and wonder... Existence is as urgent and as relevant as anything by Stross or Doctorow, but with the cosmic vision of Bear or Benford. Brin is back.” —Stephen Baxter, bestselling author of Ark and The Time Ships

“In Existence, David Brin takes on one of the fundamental themes in science fiction--and what is also one of the fundamental questions humanity faces in this century. Since Brin is both a great storyteller and one of the most imaginative writers around, Existence is not to be missed.” —Vernor Vinge, bestselling author of Fire Upon the Deep and The Children of the Sky

Existence is a book that makes you think deeply about both the future and life's most important issues. I found it fascinating and could not put it down.” —Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures

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