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A Man From Planet Earth - A Scientific Novel (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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A Man From Planet Earth - A Scientific Novel (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Science and Fiction
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Total price: R1,356
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Sometime in the not-too-distant future ... unbeknownst to Earth,
the Galaxy is home to a number of spacefaring societies. This
confederation enforces a strict protocol forbidding any contact
with civilizations that have not yet achieved both a substantial
spacefaring capability and sufficient maturity to control the
technology explosion before triggering their own extinction. While
this policy is intended to only bring in peaceful new members,
matters change entirely when the confederation is threatened by
some unknown entity - is the menace real or imagined? The
confederation decides to break with the rules and sends a delegate
to Earth to hire one of the supposedly belligerent Earthlings to
investigate and to revive the confederation's long-unused
starfleet. The Earthman agrees, but demands a high price: should he
succeed, the confederation will have to accept Earth as a new
member. As the threat becomes ever more acute, the question soon
becomes which mission will prove harder - saving the confederation
or convincing it to accept the deal! The extensive appendix,
written in non-technical language, reviews the scientific and
technological topics underlying the plot - ranging from the Fermi
paradox, space travel and artificial/collective intelligence to
theories on possible universal convergences in technological and
biological development.
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