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Existence

David Brin

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TOR SCIENCE FICTION
26 February 2013
"Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence.

Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there's something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn't on the decades' old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth's infomesh about an ""alien artifact.""

Thrown into the maelstrom of worldwide shared experience, the Artifact is a game-changer. A message in a bottle; an alien capsule that wants to communicate. The world reacts as humans always do: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. And insatiable curiosity.

This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback."

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Imprint:   TOR SCIENCE FICTION
Volume:   NO. 2 OF 2
Dimensions:   Height: 188mm,  Width: 104mm,  Spine: 38mm
Weight:   431g
ISBN:   9780765342621
ISBN 10:   0765342626
Pages:   792
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

<p>DAVID BRIN is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant and world-known author. His novels have been New York Times bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula, and other awards. Brin lives near San Diego, California, with his wife and their three children.

Reviews for Existence

Take a world soaked in near-future strangeness and complexity... Add a beautiful alien artifact that turns out to be the spearpoint of a very dangerous, very ancient invasion... Hotwire with wisdom and wonder... Existence is as urgent and as relevant as anything by Stross or Doctorow, but with the cosmic vision of Bear or Benford. Brin is back. --Stephen Baxter, bestselling author of Ark and The Time Ships In Existence , David Brin takes on one of the fundamental themes in science fiction--and what is also one of the fundamental questions humanity faces in this century. Since Brin is both a great storyteller and one of the most imaginative writers around, Existence is not to be missed. --Vernor Vinge, bestselling author of Fire Upon the Deep and The Children of the Sky Existence is a book that makes you think deeply about both the future and life's most important issues. I found it fascinating and could not put it down. --Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures


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