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The Thing Itself
Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenter's The Thing.
Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of them has received. One is practical and open. The other surly, superior and obsessed with reading one book - by the philosopher Kant.
As a storm brews and they lose contact with the outside world they debate Kant, reality and the emptiness of the universe. They come to hate each other, and they learn that they are not alone.
Book Details
- Publisher: Gollancz
- Publish Date: Mar 7th, 2017
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.00in - 1.00in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780575127739
- Categories: • Science Fiction - General
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@Tonisenior @angejameson @justine_jordan recommended Iain Banks The Crow Road and The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts so I’ve bought mine those. Has he done the Paolini Inheritance Cycle? Mine loved. That Patrick Ness recent trilogy is popular with mine too. I’ll ask him later and update.
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Lit and Unhistoric Acts @SussexUniMAH. Weak messianic. Opinions correct but not always shared by employer. she/her
@bentarnoff I am not a big sci fi person but I thought Adam Roberts, The Thing Itself was superb.
All things counter, original, spare, strange | THE GHOST KEEPER - @HarperCollinsCa 2018 https://t.co/3VLUjVv1iM
This week Dad introduces me to Adam Roberts's German-idealist sci-fi: "'The This' is based on Hegel, & 'The Thing Itself' is like the movie 'The Thing' crossed with Kant" So it's as if I never logged off twitter
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@Tonisenior @angejameson @justine_jordan recommended Iain Banks The Crow Road and The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts so I’ve bought mine those. Has he done the Paolini Inheritance Cycle? Mine loved. That Patrick Ness recent trilogy is popular with mine too. I’ll ask him later and update.