The Greatest Adventure

John Taine, S. L. Huang (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2025
MIT Press (Verlag)
9780262551427 (ISBN)

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A scientifically-precipitated, out-of-control tale of evolution set in Antarctica it predates Lovecraft s At the Mountains of Madness by a mathematician of note who also wrote science fiction. In The Greatest Adventure, an expedition to Antarctica discovers remnants of an elder race with advanced technology. These ancients had discovered the secret of developing new life-forms but when the mutations threatened to run amok, their creators entombed their entire civilization in ice. Intrepid aviatrix Edith Lane and her comrades must flee through caverns inhabited by the mutated monsters and when frozen spores begin to thaw out, the planet is threatened by malign plant life! A tale of horror by John Taine the pseudonym of mathematician Eric Temple Bell that is not without moments of humor.

S. L. Huang is a Hugo-winning, bestselling author who justifies an MIT degree by using it to write eccentric mathematical superhero fiction. Huang is the author of the Cas Russell novels from Tor Books, including Zero Sum Game, Null Set, and Critical Point, as well as the new fantasies Burning Roses and The Water Outlaws. Eric Temple Bell (1883 1960) was a mathematician who taught at the California Institute of Technology. The eponym of Bell polynomials and Bell numbers of combinatorics, his 1937 book Men of Mathematics would help to inspire Julia Robinson, John Forbes Nash, Jr., Andrew Wiles, and other future mathematicians. Writing as John Taine, he published many proto-sf novels.

Series Foreword - Joshua Glenn
Introduction: Science Wonder Stories - S.L. Huang
1 Bird or Reptile?
2 Captain Anderson’s Story
3 A Puzzle for Drake
4 The Riddle of the Rocks
5 “Battles Long Ago”
6 A Witness to the Truth
7 Beached
8 A Significant Hint
9 Into It
10 Undaunted
11 Hot Water
12 Trapped
13 Hades
14 The Devil Chick
15 Anticipations
16 Attack
17 At Close Quarters
18 The Enemy
19 Attacked
20 Desperate

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2025
Zusatzinfo	0 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUS.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	133 x 200 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-13	9780262551427 / 9780262551427
Zustand	Neuware