Hot-head
by Simon Ings
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An ambitious SF novel that is at once post-cyberpunk and post-modern. Complex, multi-layered, it combines hard science, tarot and images of late 20th-century Europe to make something utterly original. And introduces a memorable new heroine to the genre ... Malise has a problem. She's come downwell to Earth, but years of space combat have ruined her: her muscles have wasted away, her past is a confused torture of events and her brain is wired to addictive military hardware that's illegal on show more Earth. But with an AI mining probe returning to Earth, having bred and grown until it is hundreds of miles across, Malise is in the firing line again. The probe is indestructible and it is insatiable for more metals. No one knows how to stop it. Malise doesn't know she has a blueprint for humanity's survival wired into her head. show lessTags
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Simon Ings, a science writer and novelist, is the author of A Natural History of Seeing: The Art and Science of Vision, He edits the culture section of New Scientist and regularly contributes to publications including the Guardian, Times (UK), Telegraph, Independent, and Nature. He lives and works in London.
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- Original title
- Hot head
- Original publication date
- 1992
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- Languages
- English, Finnish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
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