Summary
A MODERN SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC FROM WIL MCCARTHY
SAVE THE SOLAR SYSTEM FROM THE ULTIMATE COLLAPSE
In the eighth decade of the Queendom of Sol, three commodities rule the day. The first is wellstone, a form of programmable matter capable of emulating almost any substance. The second is collapsium, a deadly crystal composed of miniature black holes, vital for the transmission of information and matter—including humans—throughout the Solar System. The third is…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982124496 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1982124490 |
| Author: | Wil McCarthy |
| Publisher: | Baen Books |
| Imprint: | Baen Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2020 |
| Weight: | 424g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Queendom of Sol |
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About The Author
Wil McCarthy
Engineer/novelist/journalist/entrepreneur Wil McCarthy is a former contributing editor for WIRED magazine and science columnist for the SyFy channel. A lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, he has been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, Seiun, AnLab, Colorado Book, Theodore Sturgeon, and Philip K. Dick awards. His short fiction has graced the pages of Analog, Asimov’s, WIRED, and SF Age, and his novels include the New York Times Notable Bloom, Amazon.com “Best of Y2K” The Collapsium (a national bestseller), To Crush the Moon, and Antediluvian. He has also written for TV, appeared on The History Channel and The Science Channel, and published nonfiction in half a dozen magazines.
Previously a flight controller for Lockheed Martin Space Launch Systems and later an engineering manager for Omnitech Robotics and founder/president/CTO of Raven Brick LLC, McCarthy holds patents of his own in seven countries, including twenty-nine issued U.S. patents in the field of nanostructured optical materials.
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