
The Amphora Project
William Kotzwinkle(Author)
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Published on 4. May 2006
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Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-8021-4263-4 (ISBN)
Description
Deep in the bowels of Junk Moon, the finest scientists of Planet Immortal are nearing completion of Project Amphora, which aims to unlock the secret of immortality. The Project is run by the Consortium, twelve of the planet's most influential movers and shakers, but they aren't the only ones after immortality. Commander Jockey Oldcastle, a wise-cracking space pirate, has heard about the Amphora Project from a banished scientist who is convinced it will lead to the end of the world. Oldcastle sets off to find the project with Adrian Link, a timid botanist who wants only to tend to his plants on the Agricultural Plain, yet Oldcastle finds himself trying to unravel a strange mystery: It seems the Amphora Project is turning the citizens of Planet Immortal into crystal. As time runs out, it is up to Oldcastle and Link? and Link's exotic, unlikely love interest ?to stop their mysterious extradimensional enemy before their world is lost forever.
Hilarious, wildly inventive, and featuring a fantastical cast of mutants, quasihuman robots, intergalactic mercenaries, and two-thousand-year-old immortals, The Amphora Project is a novel that combines elements of science fiction and fantasy and transcends the boundaries of both.
Hilarious, wildly inventive, and featuring a fantastical cast of mutants, quasihuman robots, intergalactic mercenaries, and two-thousand-year-old immortals, The Amphora Project is a novel that combines elements of science fiction and fantasy and transcends the boundaries of both.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8021-4263-4 (9780802142634)
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