- Hardcover: 544 pages
- Publisher: St Martin's Press (27 Dec 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0765301695
- ISBN-13: 978-0765301697
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15.1 x 4.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,418,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Brian Stableford has triumphantly created his own niche of hard biological SF, containing the genre's most intelligently imagined marvels and nightmares."-David Langford
"A series which contains some of the most compelling and richly philosophical speculation about the coming centuries, and about the role of death in human affairs." -"Locus"
"This is the soul of scrupulous speculation at its finest."-"Science Fiction Weekly" on "The Omega Expedition"
"A series which contains some of the most compelling and richly philosophical speculation about the coming centuries, and about the role of death in human affairs." -"Locus"
"This is the soul of scrupulous speculation at its finest."-"Science Fiction Weekly" on "The Omega Expedition"
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This 6th volume of Brian Stableford's future history concludes the series. THE OMEGA EXPEDITION is the extraordinary life-history of Adam Zimmerman, developer of the technology of emortality. The main part of the narrative describes his long-delayed awakening into the 35th century. His exotic hosts - inhabitants of a microworld in the outer solar system - have recruited various interested parties to help with the project, one of whom is the famous historian of death, Mortimer Gray, who is exceedingly anxious to gain what insight he can into the vagaries of the mortal mind.
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Fine Finish To Stableford's Future History
27 Oct 2003
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Fans of vast, epic future histories in science fiction will undoubtedly appreciate Brian Stableford's concluding volume in his look at near-immortality for humanity, "The Omega Expedition". This is a good luck at human aging and how it is defeated successfully by a post-human culture in the solar system more than a thousand years in the future. However, stylistically as a writer, Stableford falls short of such distinguished fellow Britons as Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldis, and China Mieville. Even Bruce Sterling had a more fascinating, more intriguing look at humanity's struggle against the ravages of aging in his splendid novel "Holy Fire". Stableford's latest describes the travails and successes awaiting Madoc Tamlin, who awakes a thousand years after being frozen, unwitting finding himself on the front-line of a Solar System war between different factions of artificial machine intelligences. Still, this is a captivating novel of ideas worth reading by science fiction fans.
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