In the year 2100, the invention of the Electron Pump - an apparently inexhaustible supply of free energy - has enabled humanity to devote its time and energies to more than the struggle for survival, finally breaking free of the Earth. But the Electron Pump works by exchanging materials with a parallel universe, and such unbalancing of the cosmos has consequences. Humans and aliens alike must race to prevent a vast nuclear explosion in the heart of the Sun - and the vaporisation of the Earth exactly eight minutes later ...
| ISBN: | 9780575129054 |
| Publication date: | 13th June 2013 |
| Author: | Isaac Asimov |
| Publisher: | Gateway an imprint of Orion Publishing Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
| Genres: |
Science Fiction Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic Science fiction: near-future |