WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/44313613

Starfish

A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness. Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below' At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Open All Close All

type

about

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness. Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below' At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied."@en
  • ""In the tradition of Arthur C Clarke's The Deep Range. A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew-people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater-down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness. unfortunately, the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below?"--p.[4], Cover."
  • "Für alle, denen Frank Schätzings "Der Schwarm" nicht weit genug ging! Sie sind eine eingeschworene Truppe. Und sie rechnen nicht damit, allzu lange am Leben zu bleiben. Denn wenn es in den Tiefen der Meere zu einem verheerenden Unfall kommt, schickt man sie hinab. Doch dass eines Tages das Schicksal des ganzen Planeten von ihnen abhängt - damit haben sie in ihren kühnsten Träumen nicht gerechnet ... Vom Autor von "Blindflug" - Peter Watts' "Abgrund" ist ein Science-Fiction-Roman, der Sie in die abenteuerlichste aller Welten entführt: die Welt unter dem Meer. Peter Watts hat lange Jahre als Unterwasser-Biologe gearbeitet, bevor er sich ganz dem Schreiben widmete. Mit seinen Romanen 'Blindflug' und 'Abgrund' hat er Leser wie Kritik begeistert. Er lebt in Toronto."
  • "Physically modified convicts are used in the Pacific for the exploitation of ocean-floor resources without diving equipment. But in the process they have become carriers of a microorganism that could wipe out humanity if they return to the surface."

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Science fiction"
  • "Science fiction"@en
  • "Science Fiction"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Starfish"
  • "Starfish"@en
  • "Abgrund Roman"
  • "Abgrund : Roman"

workExample