HILLDIGGERS by Neal Asher ( 9780330465304 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

HILLDIGGERS

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List price:	£7.99
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ISBN 10:

0330465309

ISBN 13:

9780330465304

Publisher:

PAN MACMILLAN (DIGITAL)

Pub. date:

26 July, 2012

Pages:

496

Description:

A massive SF drama from one of Britain's most popular new talents

Synopsis:

During a war between two planets in the same solar system -- each occupied by adapted humans -- what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology or some kind of life. They are placed for safety in three ozark cylinders of a massively secure space station. There a female research scientist subsequently falls pregnant, and gives birth to quads. Then she commits suicide -- but why? By the end of the war one of the contesting planets has been devastated by the hilldiggers -- giant space dreadnoughts employing weapons capable of creating mountain ranges. The quads have meanwhile grown up and are assuming positions of power in the post-war society. One of them will eventually gain control of the awesome hilldiggers ...

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Imprint:

Tor

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Non-returnable

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