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Secret of Life by Paul McAuley (2002, Mass Market)

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PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co

ISBN-10076534193X

ISBN-139780765341938

eBay Product ID (ePID)17038702493

Product Key Features

Book TitleSecret of Life

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicContemporary Women, Science Fiction / General

GenreFiction

AuthorPaul Mcauley

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight7.9 Oz

Item Length6.6 in

Item Width4.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Any novel by McAuley is an event to be met with cheers. But even for McAuley, this is the big one. Fast, intense, and right on the edge of the headlines!" -Greg Bear "An exhililrating, terrifying ride through tomorrow's zeitgeist... a telling page-turning." -Stephen Baxter "Thsi could well be the McAukey novel that break throgh to a wider audience." -Starlog, "Any novel by McAuley is an event to be met with cheers. But even for McAuley, this is the big one. Fast, intense, and right on the edge of the headlines!" -Greg Bear "An exhililrating, terrifying ride through tomorrow's zeitgeist... a telling page-turning." -Stephen Baxter "Thsi could well be the McAukey novel that break throgh to a wider audience." - Starlog

Dewey Decimal823/.914

Edition DescriptionReprint,Revised edition

Synopsis2026: Something is growing in the Pacific Ocean, a strange fungus-like organism that may threaten our entire food chain. Christened "the slick," the bizarre phenomenon is quickly the subject of intense, top-secret analysis-which rapidly reveals that it contains DNA unlike that of any other life on the planet. Where is it from? A Chinese mission to Mars is rumored to have discovered life beneath the Martian icecap, but the Chinese aren't talking. Dr. Mariella Anders is recruited by NASA to join an urgent mission to the Red Planet to find out. Brilliant and committed to science, Mariella wants only the truth, but others' motives are less noble. Faced with corporations, activist groups, and superpowers, each with their own secret agendas, Mariella is on a perilous quest for knowledge. . .and she's about the discover the high price of truth.