A man from planet earth [electronic resource] : a scientific novel / Giancarlo Genta.
Genta, G. (Giancarlo), author.
2016
PQ4817.E589
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Title A man from planet earth [electronic resource] : a scientific novel / Giancarlo Genta.
Author Genta, G. (Giancarlo), author.
ISBN 9783319211152 (electronic book)
3319211153 (electronic book)
9783319211145
3319211145
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21115-2
Published Cham : Springer, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-21115-2 doi
Call Number PQ4817.E589
Dewey Decimal Classification 853/.92
Summary 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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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed August 31, 2015).
Series Science and fiction (Springer (Firm))
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Preface
part i: novel
part ii: scientific
Appendix.

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