Format:
Book
Author:
Harmer, Elizabeth, author.
Title:
The amateurs / Liz Harmer.
Edition:
Vintage Canada edition.
Publisher, Date:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Vintage Canada, 2019.
©2018
Description:
327 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
Allow us to introduce you to the newest product from PINA, the world's largest tech company. "Port" is a curiously irresistible device that offers the impossible: space-time travel mysteriously powered by nostalgia and longing. Step inside a Port and find yourself transported to wherever and whenever your heart desires: a bygone youth, a dreamed-of future, the fabled past.
Subjects:
Time travel -- Fiction.
Technology -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
Genre:
Apocalyptic fiction.
Fiction.
Science fiction.
Apocalyptic fiction.
Science fiction.
Notes:
"Originally published in hardcover by Knopf Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, in 2018."--Title page verso.
Contents:
Part one: The amateurs -- The collectors -- The support group -- The dreamers -- The neighbours -- The lotus-eaters -- Part two: The professionals -- The optimists -- The inventors -- The persuaders -- The guilty parties -- Interlude: Port -- Part three: The travellers -- The faithful -- The homecomer -- The pessimists -- The stranger -- The familiar -- The philosopher -- The hostages -- The pathetically willing -- Postlude: The story.
ISBN:
9780345811257
0345811259
Other Number:
1035217776
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
395084
Call Number:
SF HARMER 2019
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
1
# System items in:
1