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Author
Index
I |
Simon
Ings |
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Title
Index
H |
Hot
Head |
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| Year |
1992 |
| Publisher |
Grafton
(HarperCollins) |
| ISBN |
0586214968 |
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Synopsis
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Malise
has a
problem.
She's come
downwell to Earth
after spending too
many years in
deadly space
combat. Her
muscles have
wasted away, her
past is a confused
torture of events
she'd like to
forget, and her
brain is wired up
to
data-fat-addictive
military hardware
strictly illegal
on Earth.
She came back for
a rest. But
there can be no
rest for the only
woman who can save
the world.
Years ago
artificial
intelligence
probes were sent
into the solar
system to mine
planets
inaccessible to
man. The
operation was
highly successful
- until the AI's
stopped
communicating and
started
breeding.
Now a mass of
highly intelligent
machinery hundreds
of miles wide is
heading for
earth. It's
indestructible and
it wants more
metal. And
no-one knows how
to stop it.
Locked away in
Malise's head is a
blueprint for
survival which she
doesn't know is
there. And
when she meets
Snow, who offers
her the chance to
escape into the
dreamy, virtual
world of
cyberspace with
the help of a
revolutionary new
data-fat, she
doesn't want
to know.
But sometimes
there is no choice
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Review
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Hot
Head is a
wonderfully
ambitious science
fiction novel
unlike any other
you are likely to
read. It is
post-cyberpunk, it
is post-modern, it
is totally
unique. A
complex,
multi-layered
work, it combines
hard science,
tarot reading and
resonant images of
a late-nineties
Europe with
stunning effect.
'Hot Head
is
white-hot.
Simon Ings is
incandescent.
Watch this guy, he
could just make
the rest of us
redundant'
Colin Greenland |
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Credit:
NASA
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Massive
Flare
Erupts
From Sun
The
Solar and
Heliospheric
Observatory
(SOHO)
spacecraft
captured
this image
of a solar
flare --
the third
most
powerful
ever
observed
in X-ray
wavelengths
-- as it
erupted
from the
sun early
on
Tuesday,
October
28, 2003.
The flare,
in the
lower
center of
the image,
was
preceded
by a
Coronal
Mass
Ejection,
which
blasted
electrically
charged
gas toward
the Earth,
threatening
to disrupt
power
grids and
satellite
operations.
SOHO is a
joint
project
being
carried
out by the
European
Space
Agency and
NASA. |
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