Nucleation
San Francisco : Tachyon, 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 275 pages ; 22 cm
Helen Vectorvich just botched first contact. And she did it in both virtual reality and outer space. Only the most elite Far Reaches deep-space pilots get to run waldos: robots controlled from thousands of lightyears away via neural integration and quantum entanglement. Helen and her navigator were heading the construction of a wormhole gate that would connect Earth to the star, until a routine system check turned deadly. As nasty rumors swarm around her, and overeager junior pilots jockey to take her place, Helen makes a startling discovery: microscopic alien life is devouring their corporate equipment. Is the Scale just mindless, extra-terrestrial bacteria? Or is it working--and killing--with a purpose?
Subjects:
Space mining -- Fiction.
Space robotics -- Fiction.
Wormholes (Physics) -- Fiction.
Virtual reality -- Fiction.
Space mining -- Fiction.
Space robotics -- Fiction.
Wormholes (Physics) -- Fiction.
Virtual reality -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781616963385
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SF Unger | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Science Fiction | In |