Synopsis:
Youthful, ambitious Peter
Schoeffer is on the verge of professional success as a scribe in Paris
when his foster father, the wealthy merchant and bookseller Johann Fust,
summons him home to corruption- riddled, feud-plagued Mainz to meet "a
most amazing man."
Johann Gutenberg, a driven and
caustic inventor, has devised a revolutionary—and, to some,
blasphemous—method of bookmaking: a machine he calls a printing press.
Fust is financing Gutenberg's workshop, and he orders Peter to become
Gutenberg's apprentice. Resentful at having to abandon a prestigious
career as a scribe, Peter begins his education in the "darkest art."
As his skill grows, so too does
his admiration for Gutenberg and his dedication to their daring venture:
printing copies of the Holy Bible. But when outside forces align
against them, Peter finds himself torn between two father figures—the
generous Fust and the brilliant, mercurial Gutenberg, who inspires Peter
to achieve his own mastery.
Caught between the genius and the
merchant, the old ways and the new, Peter and the men he admires must
work together to prevail against overwhelming obstacles in a battle that
will change history . . . and irrevocably transform them all.
United Kingdom:
Note: This book has previously been released in the United States as two separate books, Blindsight and Echopraxia, but has been collected into one edition for the British version.
Synopsis:
February 13, 2082, First Contact. Sixty-two thousand objects of
unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere - a perfect grid of
falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn. Not even
ashes reach the ground. Three hundred and sixty degrees of global
surveillance: something just took a snapshot. And then... nothing.
But from deep space, whispers. Something out there talks - but not to us. Two ships, Theseus and the Crown of Thorns, are launched to discover the origin of Earth's visitation, one bound for the outer dark of the Kuiper Belt, the other for the heart of the Solar System.
Their crews can barely be called human, what they will face certainly can't.
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