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The year is 1998, the world is a growing nightmare of desperation, of uncontrollable pollution and increasing social unrest. Scientists experiment with subatomic particles that travel faster than the speed of light and are able to signal to previous generations.
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Suspense builds in this novel about scientists, physics, time travel, and saving the Earth. It's 1998, and a physicist in Cambridge, England, attempts to send a message backward in time. Earth is falling apart, and a government faction supports the project in hopes of diverting or avoiding the environmental disasters beginning to tear at the edges of civilization. It's 1962, and a physicist in California struggles with his new life on the West Coast, office politics, and the irregularities of data that plague his experiments. The story's perspective toggles between time lines, physicists, and their communities. Timescape presents the subculture and world of scientists in microcosm: the lab, the loves, the grappling for grants, the pressures from university and government, the rewards and trials of relationships with spouses, the pressures of the scientific race, and the thrill of discovery.
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Timescape merits the tag "hard science fiction"; it tells the story of scientists, and readers can't help but learn something about tachyons and physics while reading it. Yet much of the story is about humanity: the men John Renfrew and Gordon Bernstein and their relationships--between husband and wife, lover and lover, English working class and upper class, professor and student, and academician and colleagues.
Winner of the Nebula Award in 1980 and the John W. Clark Award in 1981, Timescape offers readers a great yarn, in terms of both humanity and science.
1998. Earth is falling apart, on the brink of ecological disaster. But in England a tachyon scientist is attempting to contact the past, to somehow warn them of the misery and death their actions and experiments have visited upon a ravaged planet.
1962. JFK is still president, rock 'n' roll is king, and the Vietnam War hardly merits front-page news. A young assistant researcher at a California university, Gordon Bernstein, notices strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment. Against all odds, facing ridicule and opposition, Bernstein begins to uncover the incredible truth... a truth that will change his life and alter history... the truth behind time itself.
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- PublisherSphere Books Limited
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0722116306
- ISBN 13 9780722116302
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages412
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrator). 1982 Edition. © 1980: A stand-alone novel by Gregory Benford. 4th printing of 1982 edition:- Synopsis: The year is 1998, the world is a growing nightmare of desperation, of uncontrollable pollution and increasing social unrest. In Cambridge, two scientists experiment with tachyons - subatomic particles that travel faster than the speed of light and, therefore, according to the Theory of Relativity, may move backwards in time. Their plan is to signal a warning to the previous generation, but will they decipher the messages in time?:- Review(s): "Science fiction at its very best" - Anthony Burgess / "This is great science fiction in ideas, great fiction in its response to people and work and the complexities of reality" - Guardian / "'Timescape' is by turns serious and entertaining, nostalgic and forward-looking. The ultimate resolution of the puzzle has been handled adroitly and will amaze general readers" - New Scientist:- (original cost £3.50). Seller Inventory # 11.001.00549
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Book Description Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrator). 1982 Edition. © 1980: A stand-alone novel by Gregory Benford. 1st printing of 1982 edition:- Synopsis: The year is 1998, the world is a growing nightmare of desperation, of uncontrollable pollution and increasing social unrest. In Cambridge, two scientists experiment with tachyons - subatomic particles that travel faster than the speed of light and, therefore, according to the Theory of Relativity, may move backwards in time. Their plan is to signal a warning to the previous generation. In 1962, a young Californian scientist, Gordon Bernstein, finds his experiments are being spoiled by unknown interference. As he begins to suspect something near the truth it becomes a race against time - the world is collapsing and will only be saved if Gordon can decipher the messages in time:- Review(s): "Science fiction at its very best" - Anthony Burgess / "This is great science fiction in ideas, great fiction in its response to people and work and the complexities of reality" - Guardian / "'Timescape' is by turns serious and entertaining, nostalgic and forward-looking. The ultimate resolution of the puzzle has been handled adroitly and will amaze general readers" - New Scientist:- (original cost £1.75). Seller Inventory # 18.004.00214
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