Would you like to see this page in English? Click here.

16 neufs & d'occasion à partir de CDN$ 0.69
Voir toutes les options d'achat
Vous en avez un à vendre?
Vendez les vôtres ici
 
 
Delta Search: Quest for Tomorrow
 
Agrandissez cette image 
Partagez vos propres images client
Editeur: découvrez commment les clients peuvent feuilleter et chercher au coeur de ce livre.

Delta Search: Quest for Tomorrow (Hardcover)

de William Shatner (Author)
4.0étoiles sur 5  Voir tous les commentaires (1 évaluation de client)

Offert par ces vendeurs.


4 neufs à partir de CDN$ 52.77 12 d'occasion à partir de CDN$ 0.69

Les détails du produit

Descriptions du produit

From Library Journal

The Star Trek star and "Tek Wars" series author creates a new space adventure featuring 16-year-old Jim Endicott. When his secretive father is murdered and his stepmother disappears, Jim calls upon his survival training to escape the government agents sent to kill him on planet Wolfbane. Back on Earth, he finds that the secret code his birth mother embedded in his DNA links him to the mass psychosis caused by a vast computer network of mind arrays. Interesting hypotheses on DNA manipulation and the use of human minds hardwired for a global link overcome sketchily drawn characters. Buy on demand.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Booklist

With this fast-paced action-sf novel, Shatner launches yet another series, called Quest for Tomorrow. Jim Endicott carries, encoded in his DNA, the secret of a process that will make humanity equal to its superior alien neighbors by enabling human minds to be linked together into a sort of organic supercomputer. This endowment puts him and his foster parents on the run from Delta, a super-spymaster who is Jim's biological father. Delta developed the process Jim carries, but after the defection of Jim's biological mother, he has been using a makeshift arrangement that has had a disastrous effect on the mental stability of humanity's Plebs, as the technologically unemployed are called. For their part, the Plebs want Jim as bait for luring Delta to destruction. Despite abundant action and high-tech hardware (the book would, given a generous FX budget, translate well to the screen), Shatner also manages to produce much subtle characterization, realistic (occasionally grungy) world building, and a sober regard for morally ambiguous situations and the decisions forced on 16-year-old Jim and others. This is the Heinlein sf juvenile novel grown up. Roland Green
Voir toutes les Descriptions du produit

Associer des mots-clés à ce produit

 (De quoi s'agit-il ?)
Considérez votre mot-clé comme une sorte d'étiquette définissant parfaitement ce produit.
Les mots-clés aident les clients à organiser et trouver leurs articles favoris.
Vos mots-clés : Ajouter votre premier mot-clé
 
Voir les mots-clés les plus populaires
 

L'avis des consommateurs

1 Evaluation
5 étoiles:    (0)
4 étoiles:
 (1)
3 étoiles:    (0)
2 étoiles:    (0)
1 étoiles:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Évaluation du client type
4.0étoiles sur 5 (1 évaluation de client)
 
 
 
 
Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients:
Commentaires client les plus utiles

 
4.0étoiles sur 5 An Interstellar Search and Pursuit, Jui 16 2003
Par Arthur W. Jordin (Smyrna, GA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
(REAL NAME)   
Delta Search is the first novel in the Quest For Tomorrow series. This SF series for young adults is about a gene engineered child, James Endicott, who is being sought by Delta, both a man who is James' biological father and a shadowy government agency with an interstellar reach. Delta had caught his mother when he was an infant, but James was rescued by Carl, who was a friend of his mother and knows about the altered genetic coding.

In this novel, Jimmy lives with Carl and Tabitha on the Terran colony Wolfbane. On his sixteenth birthday, Jimmy is given a Stiron und Ritter .75 rocket pistol like Carl's and an adult permit to the training range. Jimmy presents his application to the Space Academy to Carl and Tabitha for their approval, but Carl tells him that he can never apply. He is still determined to gain admission to the Space Academy, so he transmits the application despite Carl's orders.

Later, Jimmy confesses his actions to Carl and is surprised at the reaction: Carl tells them to pack everything they need to leave the planet. He also tells Jimmy to wear his S&R .75 from now on. Carl does fill him in on part of the situation and Tabitha tells him more. Then the raiders hit their cabin.

This novel is more of an escape and evasion plot than anything else, but it is also the tale of James Endicott's coming of age. He now knows that he is being hunted relentlessly and later learns that the hunter is Delta. In his flight, he meets Cat Thibaudeaux, who takes him under her wing.

This novel was apparently written in collaboration with William T. Quick, who has also written Systems, a fairly interesting SF novel. This novel, however, does not have the complexity of Quick's other novels.

Recommended for young adults and anyone else who enjoys relatively simple plots in a SF setting.

Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ? Oui Non (Signaler ce commentaire)


Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients: Créer votre propre commentaire
 
 
Rechercher uniquement sur les commentaires portant sur ce produit


Cherchez des articles semblables par catégorie

Chercher des articles semblables par sujet








c.-à-d., chaque book doit correspondre au sujet 1 ET au sujet 2 ET ...

Commentaires

Souhaitez-vous compléter ou améliorer les informations sur ce produit ? Ou faire modifier les images?

Votre historique récent

 (En savoir plus)

Après avoir visualisé des pages détaillées produit ou des résultats de recherche, regardez ici pour trouver une façon simple de poursuivre votre navigation sur des pages qui vous intéressent.