Highway of Eternity
Simak, Clifford D
Time travel involves
dangers—from saber-toothed tigers to killer robots—but it may be
humanity’s only hope in this novel by a Nebula Award–winning author.
What is the price of eternal life? Secret agent Jay Corcoran is about
to learn the answer when his investigation into an inexplicable
disappearance carries him and journalist friend Tom Boone hundreds of
years into the past. Corcoran and Boone’s powerful extrasensory
abilities lead them to an advanced transportation system through time,
and back to the bucolic eighteenth-century English countryside. There,
they discover a family from the distant future that is hiding from the
Immortals—an alien race that, many centuries on, is seducing human
subjects with the promise of immortality. But the cost of life eternal
is the corporeal self, and there is no place in the aliens’ future for
anyone unwilling to exist as mind alone. Now that the Evans family’s
sanctuary has been breached, escape is the only answer—for Tom Boone and
Jay Corcoran as well—and the only way out is forward . . . far
forward. But racing through space and time can be a hazardous
occupation, especially with monstrous beasts, killer robots, and
Immortal body-destroyers waiting at every juncture.
dangers—from saber-toothed tigers to killer robots—but it may be
humanity’s only hope in this novel by a Nebula Award–winning author.
What is the price of eternal life? Secret agent Jay Corcoran is about
to learn the answer when his investigation into an inexplicable
disappearance carries him and journalist friend Tom Boone hundreds of
years into the past. Corcoran and Boone’s powerful extrasensory
abilities lead them to an advanced transportation system through time,
and back to the bucolic eighteenth-century English countryside. There,
they discover a family from the distant future that is hiding from the
Immortals—an alien race that, many centuries on, is seducing human
subjects with the promise of immortality. But the cost of life eternal
is the corporeal self, and there is no place in the aliens’ future for
anyone unwilling to exist as mind alone. Now that the Evans family’s
sanctuary has been breached, escape is the only answer—for Tom Boone and
Jay Corcoran as well—and the only way out is forward . . . far
forward. But racing through space and time can be a hazardous
occupation, especially with monstrous beasts, killer robots, and
Immortal body-destroyers waiting at every juncture.
种类:
年:
2015
出版:
ebook
出版社:
Open Road Media Sci-Fi Fantasy
语言:
english
页:
232
ISBN 10:
1504024117
ISBN 13:
9781504024112
文件:
EPUB, 607 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 2015
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