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The terranauts / T. Coraghessan Boyle.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.O932 T47 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Closed ecological systems (Space environment)--Fiction.
- Closed ecological systems (Space environment).
- Human behavior--Fiction.
- Human behavior.
- Interpersonal conflict--Fiction.
- Interpersonal conflict.
- Biotic communities--Fiction.
- Biotic communities.
- Arizona--Fiction.
- Arizona.
- FICTION / Historical.
- FICTION / Biographical.
- FICTION / Literary.
- Local Subjects:
- FICTION / Historical.
- FICTION / Biographical.
- FICTION / Literary.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 508 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
- Summary:
- Sealed inside a glass enclosure designed as a prototype for a possible off-Earth colony, eight Terranauts in the 1990s Arizona desert test their skills in five biome environments that they must protect from skeptics who would sabotage the mission.
- 1994. In the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway. As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists, four men and four women dubbed the "Terranauts," have been selected to live under glass in E2, a prototype of a possible off-earth colony. Closely monitored by an all-seeing Mission Control, this New Eden is both an adventure in scientific discovery and a momentous publicity stunt. The Terranauts face increased scrutiny and a host of disasters, both natural and of their own making.
- ISBN:
- 9780062349408
- 0062349406
- OCLC:
- 936619562
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