Ian J Miller

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Beschreibung

David Gill, an engineer, has trouble selling food to the hungry, but when, in the early summer of 2075, he arrives in Los Angeles to seal a deal with Robbie Newall, his troubles get very worse, very quickly. He is made an offer he cannot refuse: set up food production facilities in Hellas Planitia, supply a venture run by Robbie Newall, and come back wealthy, or have a contract taken out on him. He needs help from the mercurial Jacqui Tennant, a Space Corps pilot, but she associates Gill with the corporations she so desperately wants to keep off Mars. Gill finds that Newall wants everything: first his wife, then his land, then he discovers Newall is generating a massive stock fraud on Earth and he has to stop it. On Mars, that will be difficult, because Newall has the only guns on Mars, he has men to use them, and they have already killed. A story with crime, action, science, and the harsh Martian environment.

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Autor

Ian J Miller was born 7th August 1942 to the son of a policeman sent to Hokitika (New Zealand) to fill vacancies due to the mass murderer Stanley Graham. Secondary education was at Ashburton High School, thence to University of Canterbury (BSc Hons1, PhD), followed by post-docs at Calgary, Southampton and Armidale. I returned to New Zealand to Chemistry Division, DSIR, to work first on lignin chemistry, then recycling, seaweed research, then hydrothermal wood liquefaction. In 1986 I left DSIR to set up Carina Chemical Laboratories Ltd, to carry out research to support the private half of a joint venture to make pyromellitates, the basis of high temperature resistant plastics. (When called to a TV program to discuss the danger of foam plastics in fires, I aimed a gas torch at the palm of my hand, protected only by a piece of foam plastic I had made shortly before. Fortunately, it worked, it glowed yellow hot, but held the heat for about half a minute.) This venture, and an associated seaweed processing venture collapsed during the late 1980s financial crisis, mostly for financial reasons. Current projects include the development of Nemidon gels (www.nemidon.co.nz/) and fuels and chemicals through the hydrothermal treatment of microalgae (www.aquaflowgroup.com/). I have written about 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, about 35 other articles, and I was on the Editorial Board of Botanica Marina between about 1998-2008.

In my first year University, following an argument with some Arts students, I was challenged to write a fictional book. I did in spare time: Gemina. I subsequently self-published a revised version, only to find publicity was forbidden as a condition of getting my finance for the pyromellitates project. Since then, I have written a few more science in fiction thriller-type novels that don't fit nicely in any category. These form a "future history", and Puppeteer is the first of one entry point.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ian J Miller
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798224541652
• Artikelnr.: 70403222