| Title : | The Medusa Chronicles | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Baxter, Stephen, Author ; Alastair Reynolds, Associate | | Publisher: | Bridgwater: Gollancz | | Publication Date: | 2016 | | Pagination: | 327 p. | | Size: | 19.7 cm. | | Price: | RM 47.90 | | Languages : | English (eng) | | Descriptors: | [LCSH]Fiction
| | Abstract: | The 2080s: dirigible pilot Commander Howard Falcon is left crippled by a crash. Experimental cyborg surgery leaves him with superhuman capabilities but isolated from mankind . . .
The 2090s: Falcon pilots a solo mission into the clouds of Jupiter, where no natural human could travel . . .
The 2130s: Adam, a prototype Autonomous Deutsch-Turing Algorithmic-Heuristic Machine, mining ice in the outer reaches of the solar system, and faced by the destruction of the its fellows, feels the stirring of emotion . . .
As centuries unfold Howard Falcon, neither human nor machine, uniquely lonely, must bridge two orders of creation – and find a way to avert a catastrophic interplanetary war. | | Curricular : | GE | | Record link: | http://libsearch.siu.ac.th/siu/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=27658 |
The Medusa Chronicles [printed text] / Baxter, Stephen, Author ; Alastair Reynolds, Associate . - [S.l.] : Bridgwater: Gollancz, 2016 . - 327 p. ; 19.7 cm. RM 47.90 Languages : English ( eng) | Descriptors: | [LCSH]Fiction
| | Abstract: | The 2080s: dirigible pilot Commander Howard Falcon is left crippled by a crash. Experimental cyborg surgery leaves him with superhuman capabilities but isolated from mankind . . .
The 2090s: Falcon pilots a solo mission into the clouds of Jupiter, where no natural human could travel . . .
The 2130s: Adam, a prototype Autonomous Deutsch-Turing Algorithmic-Heuristic Machine, mining ice in the outer reaches of the solar system, and faced by the destruction of the its fellows, feels the stirring of emotion . . .
As centuries unfold Howard Falcon, neither human nor machine, uniquely lonely, must bridge two orders of creation – and find a way to avert a catastrophic interplanetary war. | | Curricular : | GE | | Record link: | http://libsearch.siu.ac.th/siu/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=27658 |
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The Medusa Chronicles / Baxter, Stephen / Bridgwater: Gollancz - 2016 
