Name: hunter ` s run
SKU: 4252666
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Author: daniel abraham,gardner dozois,george r. r. martin

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Publisher

harpercollins publishers ; harper voyager

Author

daniel abraham,gardner dozois,george r. r. martin

Topic

science fiction

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

365

ISBN

9780007236893

ISBN13

9780007236893

hunter ` s run

Daniel Abraham,Gardner Dozois,George R. R. Martin (Author) · harpercollins publishers ; harper voyager · Physical Book

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Synopsis "hunter ` s run"

a new benchmark in modern sf. a sharp, clever, funny morality tale that answers the biggest question of all: what makes us human?in a fight outside a bar ramon espejo kills a man. next day, all hell breaks loose. the dead man was a big shot, a diplomat on a mission to the out-world of sao paulo. ramon goes on the run, heading north toward unexplored territory, land so far only glimpsed from orbit during the first colony surveys.ramon has gone from being nothing in the hills of mexico to being nothing on sao paulo. he makes a bare living prospecting for minerals. maybe god meant him to be poor, or he wouldn ` t have made him so mean. he can ` t even remember why he killed the european, only the drinking, and the rage that followed.better to be alone in the wild landscape ... off the map, beyond law and civilization. each trip out he ` s sure will be the big one that ` ll make him rich. this one, too.instead he finds something else, something terrifying. or rather, it finds him, and uses him: as humans are used by species more intelligent than themselves. but ramon espejo is about to prove what a man is capable of. ramon is about to demonstrate what it is to be human; to be angry, intelligent and alive. and he is about to discover his function in the broad flow of the universe. and why it was he killed the diplomat in the first place...