@article{695637, author = {Genta, G.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/695637}, title = {The hunter a scientific novel / [electronic resource] :}, abstract = {The 24th century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been encountered in this expansion into space, colonists suddenly encounter machines of alien origin - huge robots able to reproduce themselves. Called Replicators by the colonists, they seem to have but a single goal: to destroy all organic life they come in contact with. Since the colonial governments have no means to fight this menace directly, they instead promise huge rewards to whoever destroys a replicator. As a result, the frontier attracts a new kind of adventurers, the Hunters, who work to find and destroy the replicators. Mike Edwards, a skilled young maintenance technician and robotics expert at a faraway outpost, will not only become one of them - but be the very first one to unlock the secret behind the Replicators origin and mission.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02060-0}, recid = {695637}, pages = {1 online resource (vii, 130 pages) :}, }