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Author
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Rachel
Armstrong |
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Title
Index
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The
Gray's Anatomy |
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| Year |
2001 |
| Publisher |
Serpent's
Tail |
| ISBN |
1852426357 |
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Synopsis
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On a
distant planet,
Rune 66, an
experimental
biologist called
The Chronicler
fortuitously makes
contact with
humankind.
All kinds of
trouble break
out. The
Gray's exploratory
encounters with
Earthlings lean
towards the
blatantly
sexual.
Broadcast live on
the alien planet's
'Anatomy Channel',
these assorted
bouts of
interplanetary
perversion become
a ratings
phenomenon.
In time, senior
Grays start to
worry that the
humanoids' way of
living and loving
poses a serious
threat to the
identity of a
species that
prides itself on
intellectual
prowess and the
denial of carnal
ways. |
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Review
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The
Gray's Anatomy is
a cunning satire
on mass media,
sex, morality, the
body, extra
terrestrials and
the shape of
things to
come.
Science fiction
with a twist,
Rachel Armstrong's
engaging first
novel mixes up an
outlandish,
intoxicating
cocktail of
cutting-edge
science and humane
comedy.
'This is a
wildly
oscillating,
engrossing
exploration of
future human
bodies in a time
of alien contact,
of extra-ordinary
space travel and
in a climate of
suppressed
terror'
Stelarc. |
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Credit:
NASA
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An
Unwelcome
Place for
New Stars
This
artist's
concept
depicts a
supermassive
black hole
at the
center of
a galaxy.
NASA's
Galaxy
Evolution
Explorer
found
evidence
that black
holes --
once they
grow to a
critical
size --
stifle the
formation
of new
stars in
elliptical
galaxies.
Black
holes are
thought to
do this by
heating up
and
blasting
away the
gas that
fuels star
formation.
The blue
color here
represents
radiation
pouring
out from
material
very close
to the
black
hole. The
grayish
structure
surrounding
the black
hole,
called a
torus, is
made up of
gas and
dust.
Beyond the
torus,
only the
old
red-colored
stars that
make up
the galaxy
can be
seen.
There are
no new
stars in
the
galaxy. |
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NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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