The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy - ISBN: 9781982124496
Paperback

The Collapsium

  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    4 July 2020

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
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
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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