The Thing Itself - Adam Roberts
Category: Sci-Fi
Tags: Sci-Fi, Literature
Length: 14h 17m, Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters The Thing., Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station., Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of them has received. One is practical and open., The other surly, superior and obsessed with reading one book by the philosopher Kant., As a storm brews and they lose contact with the outside world they debate Kant, reality and the emptiness of the universe., The come to hate each other, and they learn that they are not alone., 01 Thing and Sick [Unity] 02 Baedekers Fermi [Plurality] 03 The Institute [Totality] 04 Penelopes Mother [Affirmation] 05 Broadmoor [Negation] 06 A Solid Gold Penny [Limitation] 07 Pursuit [Substance and Accident] 08 The Fansoc for Catching Oldfashioned Diseases [Causality] 09 A Dialogue in Four Parts [Community] 10 The Last Three Days of the Time War [Possibility and Impossibili
