Ergebnis für "The Last Natural Man" in Science Fiction

MURPHY'S ELEVENTH BOOK SHOWCASES HIS FLAIR FOR TURNING ESTABLISHED GENRES INSIDE OUT AND ON THEIR HEAD. WHERE THIS BOOK STARTS IS NOWEHERE NEAR WHERE IT FINISHES, WITH AN ENDING GUARANTEED TO SURPRISE YOU AND TERRIFY YOU WITH IT'S IMPLICATIONS. EQUAL PARTS SUSPENSE AND PHILOSOPHY MIXED WITH PSYCHOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY. THIS TALE IS A ROMANTICIZED IDEALIZATION OF SIMPLER TIMES AS WELL AS A WARNING AGAINST WHERE HUMANITY IS HEADING.

Some people struggle to get to college. Tanner Malone had to fight through an interstellar war. Far from home, under a cloud of scandal and propaganda, hunted by assassins and haunted by trauma, Tanner is finally enrolled in a top university. He didn’t plan for an archaeological expedition on the far side of human space. He didn’t want more corporate mercenaries or space pirates in his life, either. Yet ancient alien secrets don’t come without cost. If his classmates want to survive the summer, their infamous intern is the only chance they’ve got.

The last human in the universe must battle unfathomable alien intelligences—and confront the truth about humanity—in this ambitious, galaxy-spanning debut “A good old-fashioned space opera in a thoroughly fresh package.”—Andy Weir, author of The Martian “Big ideas and...

Meistens fühlt sich Sarya ganz normal. Überhaupt nicht wie das furchterregendste Geschöpf im ganzen Kosmos. Meistens kommt sie auch ganz gut damit klar, dass sie der letzte Mensch im Universum ist, und dass sie wohl nie erfahren wird, warum die Menschheit eigentlich ausgerottet wurde. Denn meistens ist sie damit beschäftigt, ihre wahre Identität vor den Hunderten von Aliens, die Watertower Station bevölkern, zu verbergen. Oder ihre Adoptivmutter, eine riesige Alienspinne, daran zu hindern, die Nachbarn zu fressen.