Skip to content

Cosmos Incorporated

Cosmos Incorporated

Cosmos Incorporated

Cosmos Incorporated

by Maurice G. Dantec

  • Used
  • Very Good
  • Paperback
Condition
Very Good
ISBN 10
034549993X
ISBN 13
9780345499936
Seller
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Item Price
NZ$12.16
Or just NZ$10.95 with a
Bibliophiles Club Membership
FREE Shipping to USA Standard delivery: 4 to 8 days
More Shipping Options

Payment Methods Accepted

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • PayPal

About This Item

Random House Publishing Group, 2008. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Synopsis

The first major English translation of one of France's most admired writers, Cosmos Incorporated is a triumph of science fiction--a masterwork of cataclysm, mysticism, and suspense.Fifty years of warfare, disease, and strife have decimated the world's population. Those who remain are motes in the mind of UniWorld, a superstate that monitors humanity via a vast computer metastructure that catalog everything about everyone on the planet--race, religion, genetic codes, even fantasies. Those who have the means escape UniWorld's tight control through the Orbital Ring. Though his memory has been wiped clean and his history fabricated in order to pass through UniWorld's check points, Sergei Diego Plotkin knows his name.And he knows his mission: to murder a man in the city of Grand Junction, a Vegas-like outpost that is home to the private launching pad to the Ring. But this sense of purpose is compromised by random memories that flash through Plotkin's brain. England and Argentina. The shores of Lake Baikal. And something else. Something indescribable.Now Plotkin is about to meet his maker. As his identity and mission incrementally resurface in his conscious mind, and in the presence of an eerily beautiful woman, Plotkin will soon discover that he has come here not just to kill but to be born. . . ."Like Houellebecq, Dantec takes inspiration from both high and low culture; he is the sort of writer who cites Sun Tzu's Art of War and the Stooges' Search and Destroy with equal facility."--The New York Times"DNA is to Dantec what the swan was to romantic poetry: an invitation to dream. . . . This rocker-writer teleports us into the cyberpunk beyonds of literature. Fasten your seatbelts!"--Le Nouvel ObservateurFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the specific copy you purchased!

Details

Bookseller
ThriftBooks US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
G034549993XI4N00
Title
Cosmos Incorporated
Author
Maurice G. Dantec
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
ISBN 10
034549993X
ISBN 13
9780345499936
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2008

Terms of Sale

ThriftBooks

30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.

About the Seller

ThriftBooks

Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Biblio member since 2018
Seattle, Washington

About ThriftBooks

From the largest selection of used titles, we put quality, affordable books into the hands of readers

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
tracking-