| In the year 2236 a brilliant new supernova lights the night sky.
Forty-eight years later a meteor strikes an orbiting CosTek space station ... a secret team develops a new hybrid android ... and the company's astronomical observers sight a baffling tetrahedron-shaped object approaching Uranus. Astonishingly, CosTek astronomers trace the origin of the mysterious object Tetra to Situla, the source of the supernova -- and infer that the entity is occupied. But by what -- or whom? An android crew is dispatched to investigate, led by Dr. Benjamin Akers, a top android designer and, by a radical twist of fate, now the world's first hybrid biological android himself. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of book - sensitive (sigh....) FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story Explore/1st contact/ enviro story Yes Explore: Lifeform altered? Yes Kind of alteration: Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Descript. of chases or violence - 0 % planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 % Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30 % Main Character Identity: - Robot Profession/status: Age: - 20's-30's Main Adversary Identity: - Male Age: - 60's-90's Profession/status: Eccentric: Yes How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book. How sensitive is this character? Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor Intelligence - Genius (really!) Setting Terrain Spaceship setting: - alien spaceship Takes place on Earth? Yes Takes place in spaceship? Yes Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths scientific jargon? (SF only) - some scientific explanation Sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references only How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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