The hunter [electronic resource] : a scientific novel / Giancarlo Genta.

9783319020600 electronic book
3319020609 electronic book
9783319020594

Cham : Springer, [2013?]

©2014

English

1 online resource (vii, 130 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-319-02060-0 doi

PQ4817.E589

853/.91

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.

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