The Hunter, Giancarlo Genta
The Hunter, Giancarlo Genta
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The Hunter
A Scientific Novel

Author: Giancarlo Genta

Narrator: Andrew Fallaize

Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/11/2021

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

The twenty-fourth century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been encountered in this expansion into space, colonists suddenly encounter machines of alien origin—huge robots able to reproduce themselves. Called replicators by the colonists, they seem to have but a single goal: to destroy all organic life they come in contact with.Since the colonial governments have no means to fight this menace directly, they instead promise huge rewards to whoever destroys a replicator. As a result, the frontier attracts a new kind of adventurer, the Hunters, who work to find and destroy the replicators. Mike Edwards, a skilled young maintenance technician and robotics expert at a faraway outpost, will not only become one of them—but be the very first one to unlock the secret behind the replicators’ origin and mission.

About Giancarlo Genta

Giancarlo Genta is an expert in spaceflight technology who holds degrees in Aeronautic Engineering and Space Engineering (his thesis was on electric propulsion orbital transfers). Until 1996 he was head of the Mechanics Department of the Politecnico (Technical University) of Turin, Italy. He is director of the Italian SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) study center and is a full member of the International Academy of Astronautics.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on January 17, 2024

Page 159 - the first time something slightly interesting happened. It lasted less than a page. Page 246 - we finally get a murder! Woohoo! Oh, wait, it's someone who I don't care about and have exactly zero interest in who killed them? Fab. God, this book was a chore. I'm sorry to keep harping on abou......more

Goodreads review by Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on February 05, 2024

Dark and Brooding The Hunter is a quiet, character-driven novel fueled by intrigue, mystery, and murder. Two years have passed since retired Police Detective Cal Hooper moved from Chicago to the small village in West Ireland, where he has taken a local teenager, Trey Reddy, under his wing. But whe......more

Goodreads review by Simone on May 08, 2024

Is this a 500 page slow burn? Yes. Is it brilliant? Also yes. I never miss a Tana French book because she is SO GOOD. But I'm one of the people who thought The Witch Elm was unputdownable, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. If you are looking for nonstop action and twists, this is not that boo......more

Goodreads review by Wendy Darling on March 15, 2024

Ever sit in a pub and listen to two grizzled men spinning yarn while they drink beer and listen and listen and listen as you shift in your hard wooden chair because it takes them a million times as long as it should to tell a simple story? That ends up not even being that interesting? Yeah, that. Als......more

Goodreads review by Chris on May 16, 2024

Tana French has become an auto buy for me. Her mysteries are smart, surprising, and driven by character -- which is what matters most to me in a novel, I think. This is the second of her novels featuring retired Chicago cop Cal Hooper in Western Ireland, a classic fish out of water, and local teen T......more

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