It is 2071, and Mars is being slowly terraformed by many nations
often cooperating in an uneasy truce that reflects tensions back on
Earth. The water of the polar ice cap, the most important resource
for all the Mars colonies, is jointly controlled by the US, China,
Japan and Russia, and doled out to the second-tier colonizing
groups (Europe, Canada, Australia, India) only grudgingly. A
military build-up is under way as different groups jockey for
control of this all-important resource, and then the bodies of what
appear to be intelligent aliens are found under the Martian ice.
Saya Askai is dispatched from Earth in realtime, separating herself
from the virtual reality network that encompasses civilization, to
investigate... and finds herself in a battleground of cyborgs,
virtual reality plagues, and Schwarzchild traps that she may only
be able to navigate through safely with the help of people who
probably don't exist... Originally published in 1999, Crystal
Silence was promptly voted the best Japanese SF novel of the year
in the annual poll run by Hayakawa SF Magazine.
General
Imprint: |
Kurodahan Press
|
Country of origin: |
Japan |
Release date: |
March 2012 |
First published: |
March 2012 |
Authors: |
Shingo Fujisaki
|
Translators: |
Kathleen Taji
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
356 |
ISBN-13: |
978-4-902075-05-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Science fiction
|
LSN: |
4-902075-05-9 |
Barcode: |
9784902075052 |
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