HomeGroupsTalkMoreZeitgeist
Search Site
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Results from Google Books

Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.

Loading...

Kybernos

by M. J. A. Watney

MembersReviewsPopularityAverage ratingConversations
1None7,759,638NoneNone
"This wry and charming story blends elements of sci-fi and fantasy into a sometimes goofy and often funny caper. It's pretty much delightful all around." -- Publishers WeeklyThe Willderschen, a shadowy alliance of some of the most powerful people on the planet, are dead, killed in an explosion. But why should that matter to Bertram, a lonely middle-aged Physics teacher, to Anita, an overweight schoolgirl escaping her bullies, or to Charles, a toff with more money than sense who thought he was just out on a boozy stag-week with his mates? And who exactly are the Kybernos? And why do they need the help of this motley trio to, quite literally, save the world?Meanwhile, in an apparently unrelated incident, a tiny space capsule, returning from a two-year mission to Mars and back, overshoots its landing ground in the deserts of Kazakhstan, arcs low across the Polish sky and hits crowded Kazimierz market in the Old Jewish Quarter of Krakow, unleashing a cataclysm that nobody could have predicted.As two groups of people unknown to each other and a hundred miles apart struggle to bring the growing catastrophe under control, Bertram Anita and Charles finally come to understand exactly what it is the Kybernos do ... and that there really is no such thing as a coincidence.'Kybernos' was a quarter-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2014.REVIEW CATEGORY: Suspense. Reviewers are kindly requested not to reveal the role of the Kybernos, and not to take the synopsis beyond Anita's disappearance and Michael's discovery of the capsule. Thank you for your co-operation in maintaining suspense and avoiding spoilers.… (more)
Recently added byTanyaW120
Kindle (1)
None
Loading...

Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.

No current Talk conversations about this book.

No reviews
no reviews | add a review
You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.
For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.
Canonical title
Original title
Alternative titles
Original publication date
People/Characters
Important places
Important events
Related movies
Epigraph
Dedication
First words
Quotations
Last words
Disambiguation notice
Publisher's editors
Blurbers
Original language
Canonical DDC/MDS
Canonical LCC

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

"This wry and charming story blends elements of sci-fi and fantasy into a sometimes goofy and often funny caper. It's pretty much delightful all around." -- Publishers WeeklyThe Willderschen, a shadowy alliance of some of the most powerful people on the planet, are dead, killed in an explosion. But why should that matter to Bertram, a lonely middle-aged Physics teacher, to Anita, an overweight schoolgirl escaping her bullies, or to Charles, a toff with more money than sense who thought he was just out on a boozy stag-week with his mates? And who exactly are the Kybernos? And why do they need the help of this motley trio to, quite literally, save the world?Meanwhile, in an apparently unrelated incident, a tiny space capsule, returning from a two-year mission to Mars and back, overshoots its landing ground in the deserts of Kazakhstan, arcs low across the Polish sky and hits crowded Kazimierz market in the Old Jewish Quarter of Krakow, unleashing a cataclysm that nobody could have predicted.As two groups of people unknown to each other and a hundred miles apart struggle to bring the growing catastrophe under control, Bertram Anita and Charles finally come to understand exactly what it is the Kybernos do ... and that there really is no such thing as a coincidence.'Kybernos' was a quarter-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2014.REVIEW CATEGORY: Suspense. Reviewers are kindly requested not to reveal the role of the Kybernos, and not to take the synopsis beyond Anita's disappearance and Michael's discovery of the capsule. Thank you for your co-operation in maintaining suspense and avoiding spoilers.

No library descriptions found.

Book description
Haiku summary

Current Discussions

None

Popular covers

Quick Links

Rating

Average: No ratings.

Is this you?

Become a LibraryThing Author.

 

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 205,522,096 books! | Top bar: Always visible