The Nano Flower
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Julia Evans, billionairess owner of Event Horizon, has for fifteen years been the power behind England's economic renaissance but now she's in trouble. With her husband missing, and rival companies suddenly claiming to have acquired a technology impossibly superior to anything on Earth, she has no time to take notice of a single flower delivered anonymously. But this flower possesses genes millions of years in advance of any terrestrial DNA. Is it a cryptic alien message, or a poignant farewell token from her husband? One man might discover its origin but Greg Mandel will not be alone in his desperate search. And, as they both now discover, simply being first in the race isn't nearly good enough when the Nano Flower begins to bloom ...'All the criteria of great SF. Fully fleshed-out characters living in an immaculately imagined and executed near-future world, lush prose, crystal-sharp dialogue ...Unreservedly recommended' Interzone 'Reaches another level of excellence ...Brilliant' Locus
Author: Peter F. Hamilton
Format: Paperback, 576 pages, 130mm x 197mm, 314 g
Published: 2006, Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Interest Age: From 18 years
Description
Julia Evans, billionairess owner of Event Horizon, has for fifteen years been the power behind England's economic renaissance but now she's in trouble. With her husband missing, and rival companies suddenly claiming to have acquired a technology impossibly superior to anything on Earth, she has no time to take notice of a single flower delivered anonymously. But this flower possesses genes millions of years in advance of any terrestrial DNA. Is it a cryptic alien message, or a poignant farewell token from her husband? One man might discover its origin but Greg Mandel will not be alone in his desperate search. And, as they both now discover, simply being first in the race isn't nearly good enough when the Nano Flower begins to bloom ...'All the criteria of great SF. Fully fleshed-out characters living in an immaculately imagined and executed near-future world, lush prose, crystal-sharp dialogue ...Unreservedly recommended' Interzone 'Reaches another level of excellence ...Brilliant' Locus
The Nano Flower