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Voyage to Alpha Centauri

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Ignatius Press
  • 16.3 x 23.7 x 5.4 cm

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For readers who love science fiction and deep themes

Explores the quest for freedom in a controlled society

You will discover profound insights about humanity and existence

Embark on a thrilling journey to Alpha Centauri in this captivating novel.

Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city", is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship.

Hoyos has signed on as a passenger because he desires to escape the seemingly benign totalitarian government that controls everything on his home planet. He is a skeptical and quirky misanthropic humanist with old tragedies, loves, and hatreds that are secreted in his memory. The surprises that await him on the voyage-and its destination-will shatter all of his assumptions and point him to a true new horizon.

Science fiction and fantasy literature are genres that have become dominant forces in contemporary worldwide culture. Our fascination with the near-angelic powers of new technology, its benefits and dangers, its potential for obsession and catastrophe, raises vital questions that this work explores about human nature and the cosmos, about man's image of himself and where he is going-and why he seeks to go there.

  • Author

    Michael D. O'Brien

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Ignatius Press

  • Published

    November 2013

  • Weight

    1108g

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 23.7 x 5.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781586178321

  • ISBN-10

    1586178326

  • Eden Code

    6463568

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