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Heads

Heads

by Greg Bear (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1991

    $4.08

  • Used

    Paperback 1990

    $6.62
Synopsis

Two hundred years in the future, the Moon is emerging from an age of innocence. Once pioneers, the easiest motto for these Lunar families is 'Cut the Politics'. They think they are safe from the sophistication and corruption of political intrigue. William Pierce is searching for absolute zero. No scientist has succeeded yet, and William is almost there...His wife Rho has bought 410 heads, cryogenically frozen centuries before in the hope of resurrection. She thinks she can read them for information. But there are dangers. William doesn't quite understand that his experiments could distort space and time. Rho doesn't realise that her heads will bring interference from a new and deadly faction, the devotedly religious Logologists. 'Cut the Politics'. But they can't. And the politics of this society could destroy much, much more than Rho and William's work...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Orbit
Published: 07 Nov 1991
ISBN 10: 1857238508
ISBN 13: 9781857238501
Book Overview: Greg Bear has majored in vastness. Infinity is his playground ... Whatever Bear touches turns epic' - THE TIMES

Media Reviews
Bear goes beyond the petty accelerations of the future which inspire lesser writers, and takes huge, intuitive and intelligent leaps FEAR Glorious...The very model of a modern hard science-fiction writer, creating visions the like of which have never been known INTERZONE Since his 1986 Hugo win for Blood Music Greg Bear has been notorious for massive and ambitious novels of hard science fiction. The unusually slim Heads is part of a loose future history sequence beginning with Bear's Queen of Angels. It's set on the colonised 22nd-century Moon where scientist Pierce hopes to outwit the third law of thermodynamics and bag the Nobel Prize by reaching absolute zero temperature. His AI assistant, an advanced Quantum Logic thinker , predicts that matter itself may enter unknown states at true zero. Meanwhile Pierce's refrigerated lab, the Ice Pit, seems just the place for his family company to store 410 frozen human heads (including family members) left over from the abandoned dream of cryonic immortality. There's even a chance that new scanning techniques could read these brain s' frozen memories. Bad news: one head belongs to the sinister founder of a cult--clearly modelled on L Ron Hubbard--and the powerful Logology movement will stop at nothing to keep those particular thoughts secret. Much tense politics follows. A sabotage attempt triggers the eerie climax as matter, bodies, souls and strange new quantum states flow together in the flux of absolute zero and the Ice Pit becomes a Fortean mystery. Bear blends scientific and mystical unknowns very neatly in this short but effective novel. David Langford, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW
Author Bio
Greg Bear is one of the most successful writers of hard science fiction of recent years, and his novels and stories have received popular and critical acclaim.