Name: Up Against it
SKU: 53705086
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Author: James S. A. Corey
ISBN: 9780765382665

Type

Physical Book

Author

Laura J. Mixon

Introduction by

James S. A. Corey

Publisher

Tor Books

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.2x15.5x3.7 cm

Weight

0.59 kg.

ISBN13

9780765382665

Synopsis "Up Against it "

A prescient classic of crime, politics, and emergent AI in a future human-settled solar system, Laura J. Mixon's Up Against It is now reissued as a Tor Essential, featuring an introduction by James S.A. Corey, bestselling author of the Expanse series. Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. Jane Navio is the resource manager of Phoecea, an asteroid colony poised on the knife-edge of a hard vacuum of unforgiving space. A mishap has dumped megatons of water and methane out the colony's air lock, putting the entire human population at risk. Jane discovers that the crisis may have been engineered by the Martian crime syndicate, as a means of executing a coup that will turn Phocaea into a client-state. And if that wasn't bad enough, an AI that spawned during the emergency has gone rogue...and there's a giant x-factor in the form of the transhumanist Viridian cult that lives in Phocaea's bowels. Jane's in the prime of her career--she's only a bit over a century old--but the conflict between politics and life-support is tearing her apart. To save her colony and her career, she's going to have to solve several mysteries at once--a challenge that will put her up against all the difficulties, contradictions, and awkward compromises entailed in the human colonization of outer space.

James S. A. Corey

(Introduction by)

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James S. A. Corey is the pseudonym used by writers Daniel Abraham (November 14, 1969) and Ty Franck (May 18, 1969). The first and last names are taken from Abraham's and Franck's middle names respectively, and S.A. are the initials of Abraham's daughter. This alias emulates those of many space opera writers from the 1970s. In Germany, their books are published under the name James Corey, with the middle initials omitted.

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