Frederik Pohl

Man Plus (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A former astronaut turns cyborg for a critical mission to Mars in the Nebula Award-winning sci-fi classic by the author of Gateway. In the not-too-distant future, a global war over natural resources threatens humanity. Nuclear warships position themselves as the American government works feverishly to colonize Mars. Former astronaut Roger Torraway has agreed to undergo a cybernetic transformation into something new, a being that can survive the rigors of Mars before it is terraformed. As Man Plus, he will be essential to opening the new Martian frontier... but not without unprecedented challenges to his humanity. First published in 1976 to popular and critical acclaim, Man Plus is now more relevant than ever. The question of where man will go once the world's food, water, and oil have run out has yet to be answered. Frederick Pohl's novel presents a brilliantly imagined, compellingly possible scenario that has enthralled countless readers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tor Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466806368
• Artikelnr.: 40591676

Autorenporträt

Frederik George Pohl Jr. (1919 - 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning more than 75 years-from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led and articles and essays published in 2012. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. His 1977 novel Gateway won four "year's best novel" awards: the Hugo voted by convention participants, the Locus voted by magazine subscribers, the Nebula voted by American science-fiction writers and the juried academic John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He won the Campbell Memorial Award again for the 1984 collection of novellas Years of the City, one of two repeat winners during the first 40 years. For his 1979 novel Jem, Pohl won a U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Science Fiction. It was a finalist for three other year's best novel awards. He won four Hugo and three Nebula Awards.