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Netherspace

Diese Serie taucht in die dunklen Tiefen des interstellaren Raums ein, wo die Menschheit am Rande der Auslöschung gegen eine außerirdische Herrschaft steht. Nach einem gescheiterten Erstkontakt erhält die Menschheit Technologie, die den Weg zu den Sternen ebnet. Der Preis für diesen technologischen Sprung ist jedoch erschreckend: lebende Menschen werden für jeden außerirdischen Antriebsstrang ausgetauscht. Begleiten Sie die Protagonisten auf ihrem Kampf ums Überleben in diesem unversöhnlichen Kosmos.

Netherspace
Originators (Netherspace #2)

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    Netherspace

    • 379 Seiten
    • 14 Lesestunden

    Matches the high notes of [Frederik] Pohl (Gateway) and Peter Watts (Blindsight) while adding enough new ideas to sing its own dissonant song. B&N; SFF blog A dark look at what could be hiding in space waiting for us to let our guard down. - Booklist A tense, provocative story, which puts a truly original spin on the idea of intergalactic interaction. It's plausible, unpredictable, and thoroughly entertaining as it sets the stage for future installments and even more questions. - Publishers Weekly A unique world that happens to be familiar, great character development, a fun change for the human race, and fast pacing leaves this as one science fiction book that you'll want to pick up! ScienceFiction.com One of the best original science fiction novels I've read. Alien races are again beyond the understanding of mankind and I couldn't be happier. Highest possible recommendation. SciFi Pulse

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    "It’s plausible, unpredictable, and thoroughly entertaining” Publishers Weekly on NetherspaceIt's half-way through the twenty-first century.Contact with alien races was made forty years ago, but communication turns out to be impossible. We don't share a way of thinking or common sensory inputs with the aliens, let alone a grammar. But there is trade, done on a basis of putting things on a table and taking them off again until agreement is reached. There is no obvious pattern to the trades. Alien anti-gravity technology was traded for a bicycle tyre. Human science has become fixated on understanding alien technology – with little success. We can learn what it does and how to operate it. We don’t know how it works – or how to fix it. The world may be a better place but it's no longer our own. We may be colonizing the stars, but we're dependant on inexplicable alien Faster-Than-Light technology. This is controlled by aliens we call the Gliese and is the only constant trade: FTL engines for human beings, any age or condition, as long as they're alive. We don't know what happens to them, but rumour says they are taken to a Nirvana where all illnesses will be healed. Their families are also very well compensated. Interstellar immigration and trade are central to the world's economy. There is no shortage of volunteers.

    Originators (Netherspace #2)