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The 24th century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been encountered in this expansion into space, colonists suddenly encounter machines of alien origin - huge robots able to reproduce themselves. Called replicators by the colonists, they seem to have but a single goal: to destroy all organic life they come in contact with.§Since the colonial governments have no means to fight this menace directly, they instead promise huge rewards to whoever destroys a replicator. As a result, the frontier attracts a new kind of adventurers, the Hunters, who work to find and destroy the replicators. Mike Edwards, a skilled young maintenance technician and robotics expert at a faraway outpost, will not only become one of them - but be the very first one to unlock the secret behind the replicators origin and mission. §The scientific and technical aspects underlying the plot - in particular space travel, robotics and self-replicating spacecraft - are introduced and discussed by the author in an extensive non-technical appendix.§

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Other technologies & applied sciences Space science

• Full title: Hunter
• Subtitle: A Scientific Novel
• Author: Giancarlo Genta
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130
• EAN: 9783319020594
• ISBN: 3319020595
• ID: 02062140
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Weight: 232 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 146 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. October 2013

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