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Description for Borrowed Tides
Paperback. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
A voyage and an adventure as sublime as any in the history of the universe. Aaron Schoenfeld has parlayed a Ph.D. in the philosophy of science and a sharp tongue into an improbable second career as director of a project to plan and execute the first interstellar voyage. The trip to Alpha Centauri will take many years and might end up being a one-way journey for the crew. His old acquaintance Jack Lumet may be the unlikely source of an answer. An anthropologist obsessed with the myths of Native Americans, he once wrote a paper about Wise Oak, an ... Read more
A voyage and an adventure as sublime as any in the history of the universe. Aaron Schoenfeld has parlayed a Ph.D. in the philosophy of science and a sharp tongue into an improbable second career as director of a project to plan and execute the first interstellar voyage. The trip to Alpha Centauri will take many years and might end up being a one-way journey for the crew. His old acquaintance Jack Lumet may be the unlikely source of an answer. An anthropologist obsessed with the myths of Native Americans, he once wrote a paper about Wise Oak, an ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Publication date
2002
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780812561517
SKU
KRC0004873
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
Reviews for Borrowed Tides
Levinson does a terrific job . . . [reminiscent] of the philosophic space fiction of James Blish or the reality-testing scenarios of Philip K. Dick. - -Locus Borrowed Tides is jumping with ideas. - The Denver Post