. . "Nuclear engineers." . . "3M Company." . . "Widowers." . . "Apparitions." . . "Science fiction." . . "science fiction" . "Time travel." . . "Miami (Fla.)" . . "Transcendent"@en . "Transcendent" . . . . . . . . "Baxter, S.; Transzendenz" . "Science Fiction" . . . . . . . . "Transcendance : roman" . . . . "In the third volume of the Destiny's Children trilogy, human beings from half a million years in the future come back in time to make contact with a near future generation of humankind." . . "Stephen Baxter?s gripping page-turners are feats of bold speculation and big ideas that, for all their time-and-space-spanning grandeur, remain firmly rooted in scientific fact and cutting-edge theory. Now Baxter is back with the final volume in his monumental Destiny?s Children trilogy, a tour de force in which parallel stories unfold?and then meet as humanity stands poised on the brink of divine providence . . . or extinction. DESTINY?S CHILDREN TRANSCENDENT It is the year 2047, and nuclear engineer Michael Poole is still in the throes of grief. His beloved wife, Morag, died seventeen years ago, along with their second child. Yet Michael is haunted by more than just the memory of Morag. On a beach in Miami, he sees his dead wife. But she vanishes as suddenly as she appears, leaving no clue as to her mysterious purpose. Alia was born on a starship, fifteen thousand light years from Earth, five hundred thousand years after the death of Michael Poole. Yet she knows him intimately. In this distant future, when humanity has diversified as a species and spread across the galaxy, every person is entrusted with the duty of Witnessing the life of one man, woman, or child from the past, recovered by means of a technology able to traverse time itself. Alia?s subject is Michael Poole. When his surviving, estranged son is injured, Michael tries to reconnect with him?and to stave off a looming catastrophe. Vast reservoirs of toxic gases lie buried beneath the poles, trapped in crystals of ice. Now that ice is melting. Once it goes, the poisons released will threaten all life on Earth. A bold solution is within reach, if only Michael can convince a doubting world. Yet as Morag?s ghostly visitations continue, Michael begins to doubt his own sanity. In the future, Alia is chosen to become a Transcendent, an undying member of the group mind that is shepherding humanity toward an evolutionary apotheosis. The Witnessings are an integral part of their design, for only by redeeming the pain of every human who has lived and died can true Transcendence be achieved. Yet Alia discovers a dark side to the Transcendents? plans, a vein of madness that may lead to an unthinkable renunciation. Somehow, Michael Poole holds the fate of the future in his hands. Now, to save that future, Alia must undertake a desperate journey into the past. . . . From the Hardcover edition."@en . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "It is the year 2047, and nuclear engineer Michael Poole is still in the throes of grief. His beloved wife, Morag, died seventeen years ago, along with their second child. Yet Michael is haunted by more than just the memory of Morag. On a beach in Miami, he sees his dead wife. But she vanishes as suddenly as she appears, leaving no clue as to her mysterious purpose. Alia was born on a starship, fifteen thousand light years from Earth, five hundred thousand years after the death of Michael Poole. Yet she knows him intimately. In this distant future, when humanity has diversified as a species and spread across the galaxy, every person is entrusted with the duty of Witnessing the life of one man, woman, or child from the past, recovered by means of a technology able to traverse time itself. Alia's subject is Michael Poole. When his surviving, estranged son is injured, Michael tries to reconnect with him -- and to stave off a looming catastrophe. Vast reservoirs of toxic gases lie buried beneath the poles, trapped in crystals of ice. Now that ice is melting. Once it goes, the poisons released will threaten all life on Earth. A bold solution is within reach, if only Michael can convince a doubting world. Yet as Morag's ghostly visitations continue, Michael begins to doubt his own sanity."@en . "Transzendenz Roman" . "Sur la Terre, en 2047, Michael Poole est ingénieur spécialisé dans le nucléaire. Dans l'espace, Alia est une adolescente humaine à peine reconnaissable mais trés évoluée, née à 15.000 années-lumière de la Terre, à bord d'un vaisseau spatial où, toute sa vie, elle a observé Michael Pool. Elle se manifeste à Michael qui croit voir sa défunte épouse." . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Online-Publikation" . . . "Science fiction"@en . "Science fiction" . . "Die kongeniale Fortsetzung von 'Der Orden' und 'Sternenkinder': Stephen Baxters grosses Epos über eine andere Form der menschlichen Evolution, die sich parallel zu unserer Zivilisation entwickelt hat. Unerkannt bisher. Doch nun ist der Moment gekommen, in dem das Geheimnis gelüftet wird - und sich das Schicksal des Universums entscheidet... Stephen Baxter, 1957 in Liverpool geboren, studierte Mathematik und Astronomie, bevor er sich ganz dem Schreiben widmete. Er zählt zu den weltweit bedeutendsten Autoren wissenschaftlich orientierter Literatur. Etliche seiner Romane wurden preisgekrönt und zu internationalen Bestsellern. Baxter lebt und arbeitet im englischen Buckinghamshire." . . . "Transcendance" . . "Transzendenz : Roman" . "FICTION General." . . "High Tech." . . "Fathers and sons." . . "guddommelighed" . .