Banks, Iain M. The algebraist.BANKS, lain M. The algebraist. Read by Geoffrey Amis. 21 cds. 24.25 hrs. Clipper clipper, type of sailing ship, designed for speed. Long and narrow, the clipper had the greatest beam aft of the center; the bow cleaved the waves; and the ship carried, besides topgallant and royal sails, skysails and moonrakers—a veritable cloud of sails. Audio, dist. by Recorded Books. 2004/2005. 1-4193-5377-2. $119.75. Vinyl; plot notes. SA Banks's SF opus sends readers hurtling across time and space to accompany Fassin Taak on a dangerous quest that holds the fate of civilization in the balance. The galaxy is populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. by an oddball assortment of species on slow and fast time who, eons ago, could travel freely from one world to another via "wormholes" in space. But then came the Machine Wars. Artificial intelligence and nanotechnology were banned, and many wormholes were lost. Now, the Ulubus System, isolated entirely from the rest of the galaxy and lacking an escape route, faces imminent invasion. Its Mercatorian rulers believe that the Dwellers, a buffoonish slow race, who thrive by being underestimated, not only know of secret wormholes but have encoded their locations somewhere. Fassin, a human "Slow Seer," who has worked with the Dwellers in the past, is ordered to verify the rumor and retrieve the code. SF fans who favor pure escapist fiction Escapist fiction is fiction which provides a psychological escape from thoughts of everyday life by immersing the reader in exotic situations or activities. The term is not used favorably, though the condemnation contained in it may be slight. replete with alien hierarchies, geographies and gadgets so fully realized that they unroll before your eyes like a George Lucas Noun 1. George Lucas - United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944) Lucas film, will love this book. Amis and his abundance of imaginative voices keep readers at warp speed warp speed n. Informal An extremely rapid speed or state of activity: "A young pronghorn antelope teased a yearling wolf, shifting into warp speed and leaving the wolf in the dust when it tried to pursue" throughout the journey. Francine Levitov, Attorney, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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