Charles Stross: Neptunes Brood: A Space Opera
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- Materiaali: Pokkari
- Kustantaja: Ace Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780425256305
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The year is AD 7000. The human species is nearly extinct for the fourth time due to its fragile nature. Krina Alizond-114 is metahuman, descended from the robots that once served humanity. She s on a journey to the water world of Shin-Tethys to find her sister Ana. But her trip is interrupted when pirates capture her ship. Their leader, the enigmatic Count Rudi, believes that there s more to Krina s search than meets the eye. He s correct: Krina and Ana each possess half of the fabled Atlantis Carnet, a lost financial instrument of unbelievable value capable of bringing down entire civilizations. Krina doesn t know that Count Rudi suspects her motives, so she accepts his offer to get her to Shin-Tethys in exchange for an introduction to Ana. And what neither of them suspects is that a ruthless body-double assassin has stalked Krina across the galaxy, ready to take the carnet once it is whole and leave no witnesses alive to tell the tale '