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Icarus at the Edge of Time
Brian Greene
From one of America?s leading physicists--a moving and visually stunning futuristic reimagining of the Icarus fable.
Knopf
September 2008
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Featuring: Icarus
34 pages
ISBN: 0307268888
EAN: 9780307268884
Hardcover
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The starship Proxima is on a twenty-five-trillion mile
journey. Icarus was born on the ship as was his father and
his father’s father, but there will be two more generations
before the Proxima reaches its destination. As the tale
begins, the Proxima is making an emergency diversion to
avoid a black hole. Icarus wants to get a closer look.
Although his father explains that when something goes into a
black hole it never comes out, Icarus is confident that he
can journey to the black hole’s edge and still make it back.
He sneaks one of the Runabout ships out of the docking
station and sets off to explore the black hole on his own.
The result is unexpected and startling. Icarus returns to
find his world profoundly and forever transformed. In Icarus at the Edge of Time Brian Greene has given us a
fable about fathers and sons, curiosity and wisdom, and the
complexity of the universe as only a physicist of his range
and lucidity could. Designed by Chip Kidd--with full-color
images from the Hubble Space Telescope--it is destined to be
a classic for all ages.
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