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epub | 8.63 MB | English | Isbn: 9781497686540 | Author: Bruce Sterling | Year: 2014
About ebook : Involution Ocean
A far-future Moby-Dick by the author of Schismatrix : A desperate addict on a bleak, arid planet boards a whaling vessel to hunt the drug he craves.
The powerful narcotic syncophine, commonly known as Flare, comes from only one source: the oil of the gargantuan whale-like beasts that swim the dust sea of Nullaqua. It was John Newhouse's addiction to the substance that made him a dealer and forced him to move to this airless, inhospitable planet But when the all-powerful galactic Confederacy declares Flare illegal, the needs of Newhouse and his clientele leave the desperate off-worlder no choice but to sign on as an able seaman aboard a dustwhaler and hunt the giant creatures himself. Joining a crew of junkies and misfits, including a mad captain with his own dark and secret agenda and a bewitching, batlike alien woman who is pained by human touch, Newhouse sets out across the silica ocean at the bottom of a seventy-mile-deep crater in search of release and redemption . . . and sails toward a fateful confrontation between man and beast that could lead to catastrophe.
Bruce Sterling's debut novel is a remarkable feat of world building-imaginative, provocative, and smart, featuring an unforgettable cast of colorful characters. If Herman Melville's Moby-Dick unfolded on Frank Herbert's Dune , the result might be something akin to Sterling's extraordinary Involution Ocean .
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Social Science Fiction, Space Exploration - Fiction, Science Fiction - Strange & Alien Worlds
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