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Earthling - Hardcover

Daniel, Tony

 
9780312855710: Earthling
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0312855710 ISBN 13: 9780312855710
Verlag: Tor Books, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Orf is an intelligent drilling machine, designed to probe the very center of the Earth. But as the world around him changes, and the Pacific Northwest is transformed by cataclysmic earthquakes and social upheavals, Orf must change as well, becoming both myth and monster, savior and sage to future generations of humanity.

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Tony Daniel is the author of Warpath. He lives in New York City.

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An intelligent mining robot who calls himself Orpheus ("Orf") disappears underground (where he finds living rock) after the last human he cares about dies. Years later Jarrod, one of the park rangers protecting the forest from the loggers, mother earth ("mattie") farmers, and coastal nomads, dreams of Orf while Orf dreams of Jarrod. In the 31st century, Orf returns to the surface to await the arrival of the dreaded "chunk" from space. Daniel (Warpath, Tor, 1993. o.p) leaves too many holes in his disjointed story line, dropping promising threads to offer a glimpse into the future without explaining how it came to be. Orf is the thin glue that barely holds the novel together. Not recommended.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Disjointed non-novel cobbled together from three long stories, by the author of Warpath (1993). In the near future, the ``Matties'' (eco-fanatics) of Washington State's Olympic peninsula are battling loggers and the government over the establishment of Skykomish, an ecological protectorate. Meanwhile, a mining robot with the memories of geologist Victor Wu rusts in the rain until geologist and Park Ranger Andrew Hutton rescues him and puts him to work. Deep underground, the robot, Orf (Orpheus), discovers some strange rocky intelligences, the terranes. On the surface, however, war rages between Matties and loggers, and Orf's tunnel is sabotaged. A series of earthquakes causes economic and political collapse, so Andrew joins with other Rangers to live in the treetops, while the rest of society devolves into tribes and Orf dwindles into a legendary monster. Years later, Ranger Jarrod travels south with a cargo of antibiotics and learns what Yosemite's Rangers have discovered. After dreadful hardships, he finds out that the Earth's magnetic field is reversing, and only the soothing efforts of Orf's terrane pals will prevent the mother of all earthquakes. Finally, a millennium hence, everybody has learned to ``trance'' (commune) with the terranes and has the ability, mentally, to explore distant stars and planets. Daniel's stimulating ideas deserved a rethink and rewrite, not this lumpy fix-up treatment with its all-but-irrelevant robot. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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Verlag
Tor Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0312855710
ISBN 13 
9780312855710
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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