Título: The Human Blend: Tipping Point trilogy #1
Autor: Alan Dean Foster
Sinopse: Alan Dean Foster's brilliant new novel is a near-future thriller that has all the dark humor and edgy morality of an Elmore Leonard mystery, in addition to the masterly world-building and quirky but believable characters readers expect from Foster. This gripping adventure reveals a place where criminals are punished through genetic engineering and bodily manipulation - which poses profound questions about what it means to be human. Given his name because radical surgery and implants have reduced him to preternatural thinness, Whispr is a thug. His partner in crime, Jiminy Cricket, has also been physically altered with nanocarbonic prosthetic legs and high-strength fast-twitch muscle fibers that give him great jumping abilities. In a dark alley in Savannah, Whispr and Jiminy murder what they take to be a random tourist in order to amputate and then fence his sophisticated artificial hand. But the hapless victim also happens to be carrying an unusual silver thread that appears to be some kind of storage medium. Ever quick to scent potential profit, Whispr and Jiminy grab the thread as well. Chance later deposits a wounded Whispr at the clinic of Dr. Ingrid Seastrom. Things have not gone smoothly for Whispr since he acquired the mysterious thread. Powerful forces are searching for him, and Jiminy has vanished. All Whispr wants to do is sell the thread as quickly as he can. When he offers to split the profits with Ingrid in exchange for her medical services, she makes an astonishing discovery. So begins a unique partnership. Unlike Whispr, Ingrid is a natural, with no genetic or bodily alteration. She is also a Harvard-educated physician, while Whispr's smarts are strictly of the street variety. Yet together they make a formidable team - as long as they can elude the enhanced assassins that are tracking them.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Human Blend: Tipping Point trilogy #1”, de Alan Dean Foster, publicado pela editora Del Rey Books, em 2010 e com 240 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Del Rey Books
Páginas: 240
Ano: 2010
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Linguagem: inglês
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Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Del Rey Books convidam o leitor a explorar universos onde a magia, a ficção científica e a fantasia se entrelaçam, criando atmosferas que vão do épico ao contemporâneo. Muitas narrativas se desenrolam em cenários complexos, como Londres moderna com elementos sobrenaturais ou mundos distantes ameaçados por forças cósmicas e políticas. O catálogo revela uma predileção por tramas que misturam ação e mistério, com personagens que enfrentam dilemas morais e conflitos internos, seja em batalhas ancestrais ou em intrigas familiares. Além disso, há obras que abordam temas sociais e históricos com um tom mais reflexivo e analítico, ampliando o escopo para além da pura aventura.
