false<![CDATA[Singularity]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174766684m/437399.jpg4373991Bill DeSmedt should be on the bestseller lists with Tom Clancy and Dan Brown. DeSmedt's ambitious and exciting debut novel, <I>Singularity</I>, mixes a post-Cold-War conspiracy with cutting-edge quantum physics and a century-old mystery to create a terrifying techno-thriller.<p> A secret US government agency, CROM, fights terrorism by apprehending or terminating post-Soviet scientists before they sell the technology of mass destruction to terrorists. A rookie CROM agent, Marianna Bonaventure, and a brilliant consultant, Jonathan Knox, find themselves on an undercover mission to locate a missing Russian physicist. Instead, they discover a secret far scarier than terrorists with nuclear weapons.<p> The famous "meteor" that devastated Siberia's Tunguska wasteland in 1908 was no meteor. It was a microscopic black hole that entered the earth's crust--and never exited. Trapped, it may eventually devour the earth. But a small, clandestine group has developed secret technology to capture the black hole. If the conspirators succeed, the world will be enslaved by a dictatorship made omnipotent by the black hole's quantum effects. If the conspirators fail, they will accelerate the black hole's destructiveness--and guarantee the earth's immediate annihilation. Bonaventure and Knox rush to stop the conspirators--but they may already be too late. <I>--Cynthia Ward</I>4262701112004Singularitytotal:69|5:27|4:25|3:12|2:3|1:2|69279961554falsefalseSun Aug 31 16:30:29 -0700 2008Sun Aug 31 16:40:05 -0700 2008 If you want a hardcover, though, you'll have...more...]]>
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Publisher Per Aspera Press took a gamble__their debut is DeSmedt's first novel__and it paid off. In this scientific technothriller, DeSmedt fictionalizes the possible implications of the bizarre explosion in Tunguska, Siberia. It didn't result from a small meteorite, his protagonists speculate, but ...more...]]>
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