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Echoes of Earth

Echoes of Earth

by Sean Williams and Shane Dix
Paperback
Publication Date: 28/05/2002
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Members of a survey team are sent from Earth in 2053 to Adrasteia, 75 light years away. the survey team are of two kinds: \'9291engrams\'9291, copies of earth-bound people, and artificial humans. then, an alien race they call \'9291spinners\'9291 suddenly arrive and take up orbit around Adrasteia. Peter Alander, a flawed engram, is chosen to approach the aliens. What he finds is a wealth of knowledge, Artificial Intelligences, and a faster-than-light vessel - Arachne. Peter is nominated to return to Earth in this vessel, but an alien race is following in the footsteps of the Spinners, destroying everything. Who are they? Can humanity survive?
ISBN:
9780732275273
9780732275273
Category:
Science fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-05-2002
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
402
Dimensions (mm):
181x113x26mm
Weight:
0.22kg
Sean Williams

Sean Williams is a multi-award-winning, #1 New York Times best-selling author for readers of all ages. With over four million published words, in the form of series, novels, short stories and poems that have been translated into multiple languages for readers around the world, he has worked with visual artists, dramaturges, composers and other writers on collaborative works that include stories set in the Star Wars and Doctor Who universes, original series created with Garth Nix, and a science-fiction musical performed at the National Museum in Canberra.

In 2017, he was the recipient of the Australian Antarctica Division's annual Arts Fellowship. His most recent novels Impossible Music and Her Perilous Mansion were nominated for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature and the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature respectively. Both are Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Books. As well as being a senior lecturer at Flinders University, he writes articles about creative writing; composes music that has been released internationally and commissioned for exhibitions, live performances, and the stage; and cooks a mean Brussels sprout.

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