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Author
Index
H |
James
P Hogan |
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Title
Index
O |
Out
of Time |
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| Year |
1993 |
| Publisher |
Bantam
Books |
| ISBN |
0553299719 |
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Synopsis
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What
time is it?
James P Hogan's
novel is
"puzzle"
science fiction in
the finest classic
sense. Its
unlikely hero is
Joe Kopeksky,
working out of New
York's Bureau of
Criminal
Investigation,
who's just been
handed a case
unlike any he's
ever faced before:
a case of quantum
uncertainty.
All over Manhattan
and the
surrounding
boroughs, time has
gone awry.
Some locations
speed through an
hour in the space
of minutes; in
others, clocks
tick genteelly at
normal pace.
But the situation
is anything but
normal.
He may be just
a cop, but Joe
Kopeksky and every
other investigator
in the city has
been called in on
this case.
Because it doesn't
take an Einstein
to see that where
time is lost,
chaos rushes in to
fill the
void. The
only lead is an
eerie red glow
emanating from New
York's most
powerful computing
systems - a light
that unchecked,
could soon lead to
total
darkness. In
his desperate
search for an
answer, Kopeksky
consults with
physicists,
psychics and
priests. For
in a world out of
whack and a city
out of control,
there's only one
thing Kopeksky
knows for sure:
he's rapidly
running ... |
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Review
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"No
one is more adept
at combining the
techno-thriller
format with
sophisticated
science fictional
concepts ...
riveting
excitement."
Rave Reviews |
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Credit:
NASA
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Mars
Rising
Behind
Elephant
Rock
August
28, 2003
at about
10 am
Universal
Time, Mars
and Earth
passed
closer
than in
nearly
60,000
years.
Mars,
noticeably
red,
remains
the
brightest
object in
the
eastern
sky just
after
sunset.
The best
views of
Mars,
however,
will
continue
to be from
the robot
spacecraft
currently
orbiting
Mars: the
Mars
Global
Surveyor
and the
Mars
Odyssey.
The
current
pass
sparked
the
launching
of four
new
spacecraft
toward
Mars, some
of which
will
deploy
landers
early next
year and
likely
return
even more
spectacular
views of
our
planetary
neighbor.
Pictured
above,
Mars was
photographed
rising in
the
southeast
behind
Elephant
Rock in
the Valley
of Fire
State
Park,
Nevada,
USA. Photo
Credit
&
Copyright:
Wally
Pacholka (Astropics) |
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NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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