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"In the early 2020s, two young, genius computer hackers, Elizabeth Santiago and David Schwartz, meet at MIT, where Schwartz is sneaking into classes, and have a brief affair. David is amoral and out for himself, and soon disappears. Elizabeth dreams of technology and space travel and takes a mi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Tor,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Cover image |
| Summary: | "In the early 2020s, two young, genius computer hackers, Elizabeth Santiago and David Schwartz, meet at MIT, where Schwartz is sneaking into classes, and have a brief affair. David is amoral and out for himself, and soon disappears. Elizabeth dreams of technology and space travel and takes a military job after graduating. Nearly ten years later, David is setting himself to become a billionaire by working in the shadows ... and Elizabeth works in intelligence preventing international space piracy. With robotic mining in space becoming a lucrative part of Earth's economy, shipments from space are dropped down the gravity well into the oceans. David and Elizabeth fight for dominance of the computer systems controlling ore drop placement in international waters"-- Ten years after having a brief affair, genius computer hackers Elizabeth Santiago and David Schwartz square off over lucrative ore shipments from robotic mining operations in space. |
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| Item Description: | "A Tom Doherty Associates book." |
| Physical Description: | 336 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780765379108 0765379104 |