Bibliograph

Earth, David Brin

Type

Label

Earth, David Brin

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Earth

Oclc number

23808019

Responsibility statement

David Brin

Series statement

A Bantam spectra book

Summary

A microscopic black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core and the entire planet is in danger of being destroyed within two yearsSet in the year 2038, into an outstandingly satisfying novel. At the center is a type of mystery: after a failed murder attempt, a group of people try to save the victim, recover the murder weapon, identify the guilty party and fend off other assassins, all the while being led through plot twists--each with a sense of overhanging doom, because the intended victim is Gaea, Earth herself. The struggle to save the planet gives Brin the occasion to recap recent global events: a world war fought to wrest all caches of secret information from the grip of an elite few; a series of ecological disasters brought about by environmental abuse; and the effects of a universal interactive data network on beginning to turn the world into a true global village

Target audience

adult

Classification