- Title:
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Hilldiggers (MP3)
- Written by:
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Neal Asher
- Read by:
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Peter Noble
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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16 hours 38 minutes
- MP3 size:
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687 MB
- Published:
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May 28 2019
- Available Date:
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May 28 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781509872701
- Genres:
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Fiction; Cyberpunk; Science Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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A devastating chain of events starts on a maximum security space station, where alien technology is discovered. And many will learn, to their cost, that some weapons should never be unleashed ...
During a war between two planets in the same solar system – each occupied by adapted humans – what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology or some kind of life. They are placed for safety in three ozark cylinders of a massively secure space station. There a female research scientist subsequently falls pregnant, and gives birth to quads. Then she commits suicide – but why?
By the end of the war one of the contesting planets has been devastated by the hilldiggers – giant space dreadnoughts employing weapons capable of creating mountain ranges. The quads have meanwhile grown up and are assuming positions of power in the post-war society. One of them will eventually gain control of the awesome hilldiggers ...
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