The Resource The clockwork rocket, Greg Egan
The clockwork rocket, Greg Egan
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The item The clockwork rocket, Greg Egan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS).This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The clockwork rocket, Greg Egan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS).
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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- Summary
- "In Yalda's universe, light has no universal speed and its creation generates energy. On Yalda's world, plants make food by emitting their own light into the dark night sky. As a child, Yalda witnesses one of a series of strange meteors, the Hurtlers, that are entering the planetary system at an immense, unprecedented speed. It becomes apparent that her world is in imminent danger--and the task of dealing with the Hurtlers will require knowledge and technology far beyond anything her civilization has yet achieved! Only one solution seems tenable: if a spacecraft can be sent on a journey at sufficiently high speed, its trip will last many generations for those on board, but it will return after just a few years have passed at home. The travelers will have a chance to discover the science their planet urgently needs, and bring it back in time to avert disaster."--Dust jacket flap
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 328 pages
- Contents
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- Book one: the clockwork rocket
- Appendix 1: units and measurements
- Appendix 2: light and colors
- Afterword
- Isbn
- 9781597802277
- Label
- The clockwork rocket
- Title
- The clockwork rocket
- Statement of responsibility
- Greg Egan
- Subject
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- Science fiction
- Space flight
- trueSpace flight
- Space flight -- Fiction
- trueSpace vehicles
- Technology
- trueTechnology
- Technology -- Fiction
- trueWomen's role
- Extraterrestrial beings
- Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueMeteors
- Meteors
- Meteors -- Fiction
- truePhysics
- Science fiction
- Science fiction
- Science fiction, Australian
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In Yalda's universe, light has no universal speed and its creation generates energy. On Yalda's world, plants make food by emitting their own light into the dark night sky. As a child, Yalda witnesses one of a series of strange meteors, the Hurtlers, that are entering the planetary system at an immense, unprecedented speed. It becomes apparent that her world is in imminent danger--and the task of dealing with the Hurtlers will require knowledge and technology far beyond anything her civilization has yet achieved! Only one solution seems tenable: if a spacecraft can be sent on a journey at sufficiently high speed, its trip will last many generations for those on board, but it will return after just a few years have passed at home. The travelers will have a chance to discover the science their planet urgently needs, and bring it back in time to avert disaster."--Dust jacket flap
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10013853
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1961-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Egan, Greg
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9619.3.E35
- LC item number
- C56 2011
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Orthogonal
- Series volume
- bk. 1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Space flight
- Meteors
- Technology
- Extraterrestrial beings
- Extraterrestrial beings
- Meteors
- Space flight
- Technology
- Label
- The clockwork rocket, Greg Egan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 328)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Book one: the clockwork rocket -- Appendix 1: units and measurements -- Appendix 2: light and colors -- Afterword
- Control code
- ocn707971025
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 328 pages
- Isbn
- 9781597802277
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)707971025
- Label
- The clockwork rocket, Greg Egan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 328)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Book one: the clockwork rocket -- Appendix 1: units and measurements -- Appendix 2: light and colors -- Afterword
- Control code
- ocn707971025
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 328 pages
- Isbn
- 9781597802277
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)707971025
Subject
- Science fiction
- Space flight
- trueSpace flight
- Space flight -- Fiction
- trueSpace vehicles
- Technology
- trueTechnology
- Technology -- Fiction
- trueWomen's role
- Extraterrestrial beings
- Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueMeteors
- Meteors
- Meteors -- Fiction
- truePhysics
- Science fiction
- Science fiction
- Science fiction, Australian
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