Isbn: 9780860078838 - total eclipse (orbit books) (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Contents are tight and clean, with no inscriptions, no foxing, and no remainder mark. An excellent condition book, perfect for any collector of sci-fi/fantasy books. 187pp. (11x18cm). Please contact us for any more information.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Based on George Berkeley's concept of whether a tree falls if nobody hears it, John Brunner's story explores whether a scientific discovery happens if nobody learns of it. / This is a 1st edition (in this format) paperback in good condition-spine a little creased & edges a little rubbed. (187 pages). Originally published in 1975.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 187 pages. Cover worn.In 2020, an international space team, exploring Sigma Draconis, 19 light year s from earth, discovers the remains of a highly advanced society that has left b ehind as its most spectacular artifact the largest telescope imaginable, carved & polished from a natural moon crater. Successive space crews determine that the native culture evolved & disappeared mysteriously after a mere 3000 yea rs of existence. It's now 2028. Another mission reaches the planet with just one goal--to discover why the civilization disappeared--& with just one hope--t hat this knowledge will prevent the same thing from happening on earth. Exhibiti ng that rare sense of sf mystery that distinguished Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, Joh n Brunner weaves a haunting tale of how 30 people attack the nearly insuperable task of unriddling the mysteries of a long-buried culture. Was it a fatal virus, an internecine war, a religion of lunatic brutality or a deleterious mutation t hat destroyed an entire civilization? All remains hypothesis until Ian Macauley unravels the riddle. But does it provide a solution to human problems & will the answer reach earth in time.…