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ISBN-101533334919

ISBN-139781533334916

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Book TitleAt Ocean

Number of Pages190 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

TopicScience Fiction / Cyberpunk

GenreFiction

AuthorOliver Serang

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight12.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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SynopsisEun Kim, a solitary research professor at a mediocre university in middle America, is one of the last chemists whose moments of rare brilliance can still outwit the world's vast networks of supercomputers. But when a nearby comet threatens to disrupt the global telecommunication system, Eun's talents come to the attention of Haylon Labs, one of the world's most powerful corporations and one party in the frantic and violent race to find and claim the vast natural resources hidden beneath the melting arctic ice. These forces pull Eun to a remote arctic village governed by mafia and inhabited by a dangerous religious sect before she sets out on a research vessel more like a floating prison than a boat.But as Eun pushes herself to learn to adapt to her lack of control in these harsh surroundings- to learn to live "at ocean"- she finds that there may be more beneath the ice than she was told.At Ocean blends cyberpunk and scientific themes (dangerous criminal and corporate organizations, cellular automata, chemistry and the search for stable, super-heavy isotopes, religiosity, ancient weapons that slice through steel, the distribution of prime numbers and their relationship to patterns hidden in classical art) into a meditation on our existential search for love and meaning in a universe with no apparent permanence., Eun Kim, a solitary research professor at a mediocre university in middle America, is one of the last chemists whose moments of rare brilliance can still outwit the world's vast networks of supercomputers. But when a nearby comet threatens to disrupt the global telecommunication system, Eun's talents come to the attention of Haylon Labs, one of the world's most powerful corporations and one party in the frantic and violent race to find and claim the vast natural resources hidden beneath the melting arctic ice. These forces pull Eun to a remote arctic village governed by mafia and inhabited by a dangerous religious sect before she sets out on a research vessel more like a floating prison than a boat. But as Eun pushes herself to learn to adapt to her lack of control in these harsh surroundings- to learn to live "at ocean"- she finds that there may be more beneath the ice than she was told. At Ocean blends cyberpunk and scientific themes (dangerous criminal and corporate organizations, cellular automata, chemistry and the search for stable, super-heavy isotopes, religiosity, ancient weapons that slice through steel, the distribution of prime numbers and their relationship to patterns hidden in classical art) into a meditation on our existential search for love and meaning in a universe with no apparent permanence.