Shift / Hugh Howey.
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TextPublisher: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016Copyright date: ©2013Edition: First Houghton Mifflin Harcourt editionDescription: 570 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780544839618; 0544839617; 9780544839649; 0544839641Subject(s): Dystopias -- Fiction | Nanomedicine -- Fiction | Memory -- Fiction | Dystopies -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | FICTION / Science Fiction / General | Dystopias | Memory | Nanomedicine | Dystopias -- Fiction | Nanomedicine -- Fiction | Memory -- FictionGenre/Form: Dystopian fiction. | Fiction. | Science fiction. | Science fiction. | Science fiction. | Dystopian fiction. Summary: "In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened. This is the second volume in theNew York Timesbest-selling Wool series"-- Provided by publisher.
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | HOWE - II (Browse shelf) | Available | 64125 |
"A John Joseph Adams Book."
"New York Times best-selling author of Wool (silo trilogy, volume I)"--Dust jacket.
"In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened. This is the second volume in theNew York Timesbest-selling Wool series"-- Provided by publisher.
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