Bøger af David Marusek

"David Marusek is one of the best-kept secrets of science fiction, a wild talent with a Gibson-grade imagination and marvelous prose, and a keen sense of human drama that makes it all go"--Cory Doctorow, author of Little BrotherThe year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth's orbit and begin to convert them into space condos. Ellen Starke's head, rescued from the fiery crash that killed her mother, struggles to regrow a new body in time to restore her dead mother's financial empire. And Pre-Singularity AIs conspire to join the human race just as human clones, such as Mary Skarland and her sisters, want nothing more than to leave it.Welcome to Mind Over Ship, the sequel to Marusek's stunning debut novel, Counting Heads, which Publishers Weekly called "ferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny."

Despite the alien's best efforts, the so-called Little Nudge has failed, and the rogue planet Pipnonia is once again on a collision course with Earth. It's time for the "Big Bump," the alien's last-ditch effort to save Earth and its inhabitants from total annihilation. But first it pressures Ranger Jace Kuliak to accompany Deut Prophecy, the Thirteenth Apostle, on her mission to Pipnonia to preach to its doomed population.Meanwhile, civil society is disintegrating around the world. Vera Tetlin, the popular governor of Alaska, and her family are on the run from agents of the Antichrist. And Doomsday Preppers from the Lower 48 are seeking refuge in the little ghost town of McHardy, Alaska. Among them is a petty tyrant and racist who wants the town for himself.Things are heating up - literally.

Maruseks extraordinary launch in the science fiction genre presents readers with an entirely new vision of the future. The year is 2134, and 99 percent of the worlds 15 billion human inhabitants are rendered obsolete. The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away.

Sound the Trumpet - Light the Signal FiresFrom the alien's point of view, its First Contact with earthlings (Book 1) is a bust, but at least it has survived the ordeal.After executing an emergency landing on the nearest inhabited rock, the celestial being is captured by the Prophecy family and locked away in their doomsday mountain retreat. There it speaks to them in their natural language of fundamental Christianity and appears to them as Martha, a Seraph in the First Rank of the Ninth Order of Archangels. Archangel Martha bears the key to the "Pit of Hell," a necessary component of God's final victory over Satan.But the angel has been grievously wounded in the War in Heaven and is unable to fly. So she pleads with Poppy Prophecy, the strict patriarch of the large Alaska family, to risk the family's lives and resources to help her summon "heavenly hosts of angels to my aid," before Satan's army of demons can locate her.Poppy agrees to light a beacon capable of being seen from the Throne Room of Heaven. But the beacon's radiance is too faint, and the Prophecys soon see through Martha's subterfuge. They cast her out of their mountain keep, but not before blood is spilled.What Do Reverse Cyborgs Want?In Book 2, the heavenly visitor must quickly find a new human host to assist in its rescue plans. It reveals itself to park ranger Jace Kuliak as a stock Hollywood sci-fi space alien and pleads with him to help it "phone home." By this time, the "War in Heaven" has spilled over into our solar system, and Jace must bear the burden of deciding the fate of humanity.