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Earth

by David Brin

ISBN: 055329024X
ISBN-13: 9780553290240
Format: Paperback

Summary

Though the population is growing at an alarming rate, the main problem Earth is facing is a black hole that may well destroy it. To try and avert complete disaster, a group of scientists and ecologists attempt the create a massive space ark to house representatives of the endangered species.

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Publisher: Spectra
Published date: 1991
Size: 4.25 x 7 inches
Weight: 0.7 pounds

Publisher's Notes

The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War--an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. "One hell of a novel . . . has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale".--Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Line drawings.

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Hardcover - Bantam Dell Pub Group (1990) - from $1.00
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