Lift
The Rise of Mathe-Lingua-Musica

Name: Lift
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Ray Anderson
ISBN: 9781666659900

Author: Ray Anderson

Narrator: Cindy Kay

Unabridged: 12 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 05/07/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopian, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

It’s 2489, and the world’s governing mathematicians have calculated that society’s struggles with rampant war and homicide have put humanity on a crash-course with extinction. With an estimated fifteen months left until humankind’s total annihilation, the World Council of Mathematicians (WCM) determine the only way out of the crisis is to create the optimum language for humans, creating common understanding across all cultures and allowing them to work together for their joint salvation. The WCM and Charles De Costa, a brilliant mathematics student, must rely on LIFT, a scientific breakthrough that allows them to enlist the aid of the greatest minds in history, to create this new world language based on mathematics, linguistics, and music. Can the great minds of the past help lead humanity to a better future? Can this new language be created in time? Or will society’s continued evil and miscommunication lead the world to an inevitable end?

About Ray Anderson

Ray Anderson is a hiker and the author of the AWOL Thriller novel series, which includes The Trail (2015), Sierra (2016), and The Divide (2020). Anderson has done a radio column on hiking. He has also written columns for the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) newsletter. When not reading or writing, he walks, listens to music, and tries to keep up with grandchildren. Anderson lives with his wife, Nancy, near Boston.

About Cindy Kay

Cindy Kay is a Chinese-Thai-American narrator and educator whose work has been described as listening to a "cozy best friend." She narrates fiction and nonfiction and has studied Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, and Japanese. Raised in the California Bay Area, she currently lives in the Rockies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on February 15, 2019

Business coach or Expert coach? - from apprentice to master takes practice. You know the old saying “Practice makes perfect - unless you’re doing it wrong,” or something like that? Bruce R. Dorey, Ph.D. discusses the history of business, management and coaching in his book Lift: The Nature and Craft......more

Goodreads review by Alea on January 11, 2019

The Renaissance period produced more polymath more than in these modern days. An epitome of what an ideal humanist genius would have been, Leonardo Da Vinci was a master in architecture, sculpting, science, engineering, music, mathematics, literature, geology, cartography, and botany. Light reading......more

Quotes

The fields of math, linguistics, and music come together to save humanity in this intricately plotted and heavily academic sci-fi experiment from Anderson.… There are fascinating ideas at play here and the optimism in the face of impending apocalypse is inspiring. Hard sci-fi fans seeking hope for the future will be pleased.